Must List: Kinky Boots Returns, Edible Plant Sale & More
What to do this weekend in Seattle
By Seattle magazine staff April 28, 2016
Must Gawk
The Seattle Modern Home Tour
Saturday (4/30, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.) It’s time for the fifth annual Seattle Modern Home Tour, a self-paced, self-driving cavalcade to eight architecturally significant homes in the city. The design-obsessed will have the opportunity to walk through each home and meet the local architects behind the designs. Notable names include Tiffany Bowie and Joe Malboeuf of Malboeuf-Bowie Architecture, David Coleman, Susan Jones of AtelierJones LLC, Jim Dwyer of BDR Homes and Thomas Schaer of Shed Architecture & Design. See all the homes (there’s even a houseboat!) and map your tour.
Must See
Kinky Boots Returns to 5th Avenue Theatre
(Through 5/8, times vary) Back by popular demand, the multiple Tony Award–winning musical by Harvey Fierstein and Cyndi Lauper, with choreography by Jerry Mitchell, returns to the 5th Avenue Theatre with its huge heart and high heels.
Must Listen
Piffaro: Back before Bach at Town Hall
Saturday (4/30, 8 p.m.) The Renaissance band returns to Seattle to make Town Hall ring with its full array of shawms, sackbuts, dulcians, krumhorns, drums and bagpipes. Taking a journey through the chain of compositional history, Piffaro explores the richly varied musical world that inspired the Baroque master.
Must Marvel
Last Chance for Louis Kahn: The Power of Architecture at BAM
(Through 5/1, times vary) This exhibition about the work and legacy of one of the 20th century’s most important and influential architects includes models, drawings, photographs and films as well as watercolors, pastels and charcoal drawings that Kahn produced during his travels.
Must Shop
Seattle Tilth’s Edible Plant Sale is Here
(4/30 to 5/1, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.) Wheel your red wagon to Wallingford’s Meridian Park for Tilth’s Edible Plant Sale, where you can satisfy your green thumb (both of them!) with an array of veggies, herbs, edible flowers and other warm-season crops such as tomatoes and squash.
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Studio Sessions: Jade Solomon Curtis
With an interest in how bodies retain memory, emotion, and experience, the award-winning choreographer and interdisciplinary artist Jade Solomon Curtis presents an immersive work at Seattle’s historic Union station.
Discover choreographer Jade Solomon Curtis and her immersive dance installation, Keeper of Sadness, at Seattle’s historic Union Station this August.
Northwest Tune-Up Bike and Music Festival Brings Big Air and Loud Sets to Bellingham
The three-day festival celebrates its fifth year with bike competitions and a genre-spanning music lineup—plus one unforgettable band of mummies.
If I were to summarize the sensation of attending Northwest Tune-Up, Bellingham’s three-day bike and music festival, in one image, it would be watching Tomomi Nishikubo—a Japanese street trials biker—doing acrobatic acts of derring-do on his bike while Seattle rockers Thunderpussy shred in the distance. My second lasting impression of the festival would be rounding…
Ferry Tales: Eight Indie Bookstores Worth the Ride
Plan a summer day around these bookshops in Seattle, Bremerton, Bainbridge Island, Kingston, and Poulsbo.
Independent bookstores tend to be cornerstones of the communities in which they reside, and Seattle is no exception. In addition to helping customers discover their next read, these neighborhood hubs host weekly gatherings and events, like publication release parties, author talks, and book clubs. Many of them have cafés and reading tables that encourage lingering…
Rearview Mirror: Seattle Art Fair is Back, Nordstrom Throws a Block Party, and a Must-Try Ice Cream Sundae
Things I did, saw, ate, learned, or read in the past week (or so).
SEATTLE ART FAIR RETURNS The buzziest event of the summer (well, aside from the World Cup), is returning next week. Now in its 10th edition, the Seattle Art Fair will once again take over the Lumen Field Event Center, packing it to the gills with art from 101 local, national, and international galleries. This year,…