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The Must List: The Solstice Parade Rides Through Fremont, Best Ice Cream Spots and Tom Robbins at Town Hall

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!–paging_filter–pstrongMust Salute the SunbrFremont Solstice Parade/strongbr(6/20 to 6/22, times vary) — The Fremont Solstice Parade returns, with naked bicyclers, a food tent frenzy, crazy floats and this year, a new concert series featuring beloved indie bands Tacocat, The Young Evils, Campfire OK, The Physics, and headliners Built to Spill and Blue Scholars./p
pstrongMust Indulgebra href=”http://bit.ly/1rcq4nK” target=”_blank”The Best Ice Cream Spots in Seattle/a/strongbrThree cheers for the last week of school! Where to celebrate? How about grabbing a scoop or two at one of these prized spots for locally made frozen treats./p
pstrongMust Hearbra href=”http://bit.ly/1pnGBWB” target=”_blank”Author Tom Robbins to Read at Town Hall/a/strongbrThursday (6/26, 7:30 p.m.) — Known for writing hugely weird yet surprisingly appealing books such as Jitterbug Perfume, Skinny Legs and All and Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, the La Conner–based writer gives readers some backstory on his wildly creative brain in the new memoir, Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life. Hear him tell true tales that rival his fiction./p
pstrongMust Groovebra href=”http://bit.ly/1nRsWpw” target=”_blank”Mavis Staples Performs at Zootunes/a/strongbrSunday (6/22, 6 p.m.) — Mavis Staples brings the blues to the outdoor stage at the Woodland Park Zoo as part of the 2014 Zootunes Concert Series./p
pstrongMust Go Eastbra href=”http://bit.ly/1qwl9AE” target=”_blank”New Storefront Installations in Bellevue/a/strongbr(Through 6/23, times vary) — Visit the Meydenbauer Center to glimpse a new series of storefront installations in conjunction with the City of Bellevue’s sculpture exhibition, Bellwether 2014. On display are Susan Brown’s paper puppets perched in classic landscapes in Percy Forde Silbert’s Complete Guide to the Ocean and cut-paper artist Celeste Cooning’s stunning floral creations in Lotus Flower and Milk and Honey./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…