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Must List: May the Fourth Festivities and Seattle Opera’s ‘Ariadne’
What to do this weekend in Seattle
Must Jedi
May the 4th Be With You at EMP
Monday (5/4, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.) Don your finest Luke or Leia costume for a family-friendly intergalactic bash in honor of Star Wars Day, which (naturally) happens on May 4th. Expect Star Wars-themed arts and crafts, a roaming R2-D2, trivia, photo ops and Darth Vader masks. While you’re there, stroll the museum’s Star Wars and the Power of the Costume exhibit.
Must Boat
Opening Day of Boating Season
Saturday (5/2, times vary) Boating season officially begins this weekend, so if you don’t have your own water vessel, it’s time to make friends with someone who does. Here now, for your cruising pleasure, are eight Seattle restaurants at which you can dock your boat and dine.
Must Hear
Trimpin’s World-Premiere Work at Seattle Symphony
Saturday (5/2, 10 p.m.) As part of Seattle Symphony’s daring “[untitled]” series (yes, even the name is daring!), Seattle sound sculptor Trimpin presents a world-premiere experimental work, featuring his invented instruments triggered by conductor Ludovic Morlot’s movements.
Must Bravo
Seattle Opera Presents Ariadne auf Naxos
(5/2 to 5/16, times vary) It’s a question for the ages: Which pleases the public more, high art or lowbrow antics? The Seattle Opera poses it by way of 1912’s Ariadne auf Naxos, which delights in the depiction of both.
Must Tour
Mark Your Calendar for a Modern Home Tour
Saturday (5/2, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.) This self-paced, self-driven circuit—from Austin, Texas-based Modern Home Tours—features total access to five to eight private Seattle-area residences chosen for their unique modern design aesthetics.
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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…