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The Must List: Shiver Shake at the Timbrrr! Winter Music Festival, How to Navigate the Seattle Wedding Show

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!–paging_filter–pstrongMust Shiver Shake/stronga href=” http://bit.ly/JKB2RB” target=”_blank”brBundle Up for the Timbrrr! Winter Music Festival/abr(1/10 to 1/11, times vary) — Featuring such excellent local bands as Hey Marseilles, Telekinesis, The Lonely Forest, The Moondoggies and Cataldo, the first-ever Timbrrr! Winter Music Festival in Leavenworth is the chillier counterpart to summertime’s Timber! Outdoor Music Festival./p
pstrongMust Rock/stronga href=”http://bit.ly/1glwSKx” target=”_blank”brCelebrate the birthdays of Moe’s and Neumos/abr(1/9 to 1/16, times vary) — It’s been 20 years since Moe’s Mo’Roc’n Cafe opened its doors and it’s the 10th birthday of its successor, Neumos. Celebrate with oodles of local bands old and new—including Goodness, Gerald Collier, The Posies, Cataldo and Hey Marseilles—who’ll corral at Neumos to fete this stalwart heart of the Seattle music scene./p
pstrongMust Hear/stronga href=” http://bit.ly/1afMC0X” target=”_blank”brWriter Kim Fu Reads at Elliott Bay Book Company/abrTuesday (1/14, 7 p.m.) — Belltown-based writer Kim Fu will discuss her gripping, insightful debut novel, For Today I Am a Boy, about what it feels like to be born into the wrong body./p
pstrongMust Plan/stronga href=” http://bit.ly/KDBBg0” target=”_blank”brFive Steps for Success at Seattle’s Wedding Show/abr(1/11 to 1/12, times vary) — With more than 400 local, regional and national vendors, the thought of walking into the Washington State Convention Center and narrowing them down can be a bit overwhelming. Follow these tricks of the trade to make your experience worthwhile./p
pstrongMust Lunch/stronga href=”http://bit.ly/1dgfCIx” target=”_blank”brLeaders at Lunch Series/abrWednesday (1/15, 12 to 1 p.m.) — Seattle magazine and Seattle Business magazine invite you to attend a new lunch series featuring local business leaders speaking about innovation, civic responsibility and business growth. This first session features William J. Ruckelshaus, the CEO of Internet business operator Blucora, at Bellevue’s Cast Iron Studios./p

 

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…