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What to Read this Fall: Literature
In new memoirs, Seattle writers battle demons— and live to tell the tale
My Fluorescent God ($14.95)Almost Live! alum Joe Guppy recounts the story of his self-described “crazy period” in 1971, when he stayed for a stint in a Seattle mental hospital, haunted by the hellfire of his Catholic faith as well as his dark determination to jump off the Aurora Bridge. Using journals and doctors’ notes from…
What to See this Fall: Theater
Angels in America [DRAMA]This year’s edition of the Intiman Theatre Festival features Tony Kushner’s mid-1990s exegesis of the AIDS crisis, the two-part creation collectively known as Angels in America. Featuring stellar local talent, including Marya Sea Kaminski (as the angel), Jennifer Zeyl (set design) and Mark Mitchell (costume design), the production will remind viewers…
What to do This Fall: New Arts Venues
Fresh arts spaces are popping up all over
Read all of our picks for fall arts, including music, theater, film and more here. FILM: We first heard the glorious news back in May: SIFF is taking over the lease on the Egyptian Theatre, and will renovate and reopen the historic space as a year-round movie theater. The grand opening is set for October,…
Complete Strangers Get Close in this Photography Series
In Richard Renaldi’s photos, strangers share a fleeting moment of intimacy
They clasp hands, link arms or sometimes lay heads on each other’s shoulders. In a few cases, someone kisses another on the cheek. At first glance, New York photographer Richard Renaldi’s street portraits seem to be of oddly paired friends—people you wouldn’t expect to see hanging out together, who paused on the sidewalk for a…
Corretto–The Italian Restaurant On the Block
Delicious food and a neighborhood feel makes Corretto one of our favorites.
The biggest problem with Corretto (416 Broadway E; 206.328.7817; correttoseattle.com) is that it’s too easy to miss. It’s smack dab in the middle of Broadway, where loads of pedestrians walk by every single day without giving so much as a passing glance to anything new on their way to wherever. Owner Travis Rosenthal, who also…
Chinook Fest: A Reel Good Music Festival
Who likes music in the woods? Most Pacific Northwesterners, last time we checked
Perhaps the best way to introduce Chinook Fest–a Seattle-grown roots rock festival held in central Washington–is to explain that it currently occupies the desirable groove between fledgling production and overcrowded mobfest. Founded by Seattle band Cody Beebe & the Crooks three years ago, Chinook Fest has grown from a collection of close musical friends performing…
What to See This Fall: Visual Arts
Seattle Art Museum: Pop Departures Those Pop Art troublemakers have been at it for the last 60 years: shaking up everything we thought we knew about art by incorporating images from advertising, comic books and everyday cultural detritus to challenge the traditions of “fine art.” Now SAM mounts a major exhibition dedicated to showing…
The 50 Bands Rocking Seattle Music Right Now
Are you up on Seattle's music scene? Test your knowledge with these local bands
What’s your favorite current Seattle band? If you have trouble answering (or if you draw a blank after Macklemore), we’re not going to judge. But we are going to suggest it’s time to check in with the city’s thriving indie music scene. New local bands are exploring sounds, blurring genre boundaries (though we’ve wrestled them…
Four Locally Based Websites that are Changing the Way we Shop
The technology talent and Internet savvy in this town has spilled over into independent retail
Craft & Culture The only constant at Jason Parker and Hana Ryan Wilson’s excellent online marketplace, Craft & Culture (craftandculture.com), is the ever-evolving catalog of designers—local, national and international—who pass their elevated, edgy muster. Parker, who worked on a creative team at Nordstrom, and Wilson, an e-commerce expert, stock the shop with edgy and modern…
A Fresh Crop of Newly Opened Stores in Seattle
New store openings over the summer and into the fall are filling Seattle’s retail scene
[kids’ clothing] Totara Back in July, entertainment industry veteran Daya Marron opened Totara (Madrona, 1130 34th Ave.; 206.765.7581; totarakids.com), a kids’ shop, in the tiny Madrona spot formerly inhabited by Driftwood. Fall brings a collection of artful and design-focused clothing, decor accents, books and toys for newborns to 6-year-olds from organic and otherwise eco-friendly designers…
6 Ways You Can Be the Ultimate 12th Fan
All the things you can do to be a true Seahawks fan this week
Football season is back and it kicks off right in our backyard with our beloved Seahawks playing the Greenbay Packers at CenturyLink Field. Let’s take a look back: Were we, the fans, the reason that the Seahawks won the Super Bowl? Probably not the only reason, but we sure did help. (We do have a…
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