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The Must List: Seattle mag’s Brunch Run, PNB’s Season Encore
What to do this weekend in Seattle
Must Run
Lace Up Your Sneaks for Seattle Magazine’s Brunch Run
Saturday (6/6, registration starts at 7:30 a.m.) Grab a friend and run, walk, or stroll this 5K course in Magnuson Park. Then join your fellow runners for a post-race sampling brunch food, mimosas and Bloody Marys from some of Seattle’s top restaurants.
Must Listen
Local Contemporary Choral Group Unites with String Quartet
(6/5 to 6/8, times vary) Seattle singing group The Esoterics team up with Skyros String Quartet for a weekend of contemporary choral works focusing on ecstasy. Ekstasia highlights a combination of instruments and voices and includes pieces from founding director and composer Eric Banks.
Must Plie
PNB’s Season Encore
Sunday (6/7, 6:30 p.m.) Don’t miss the PNB Season Encore, where you can relive the last season by way of the best bits, including excerpts from Balanchine’s Jewels and Forsythe’s The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude, and bid farewell to departing principal dancer Carla Körbes.
Must Cheer
Seattle Storm’s Home Opener
Saturday (6/6, 9 p.m.) Help the Seattle Storm start the season off right by cheering the team on at the home opener against the Los Angeles Sparks.
Must See
Sandbox One-Act Play Festival Takes the Stage
(Through 6/7, times vary) The third-annual installment of this one-act play fest showcases new work by three Seattle playwrights including Vincent Delaney, Phillip Lienau and Carl Sander.
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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…