February 2021
Fall Arts Preview 2013: Theater
Actors are doing double duty this season, playing characters pretending to be something they aren’t
Having nothing better to do on Mount Olympus, the Greek muse Clio descends to 1980s Venice Beach in the form of an Australian roller girl to help a struggling artist open a roller disco. (Like you do.) A surprise hit on Broadway, Xanadu skates into Issaquah’s Village Theatre, promising high camp and big laughs. 9/12–10/20….
Fall Arts Preview 2013: Film Festivals
It’s the perfect time to dive back into dark movie theaters. Here are several good reasons to do so
ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST The theme of this year’s Seattle Design Festival is “Design in Health”—which, thankfully, has been interpreted loosely for the featured film screenings. The lineup includes recent documentaries on such diverse topics as a 1960s commune, a wind-powered home and the first park built exclusively for parkour. Also on the bill are films about…
Fall Arts Preview 2013: Music
Fall offers a veritable satellite radio of music choices to match every mood
A CAPPELLA Experimental vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth earns automatic points for its excellent name. In addition, the group combines Tuvan throat singing with yodeling and pop-style belting, and one of the members is composer Caroline Shaw, who took home the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for music. We call that a win-win-win. 9/19. 7:30 p.m. Prices…
Fall Arts Preview 2013: Dance
This season’s dance performances aim to change your perspective
Choreographers always seem to see life from a different angle, and that’s nowhere more apparent than in this fall’s lineup of dance performances. In Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite’s “Emergence” (11/8–11/17. Pacific Northwest Ballet; pnb.org), black-clad dancers emerge from a dark tunnel to swarm and flit across the stage, moving alternately like leggy spiders and insects…
Fall Arts Preview 2013
All the fall arts must-sees and must-dos that are worth adding to your calendar
The best part about art—be it a painting, dance, play, book, film or rock show—is that it has the power to change your perspective, maybe on something small, such as earthworm mating rituals, or maybe something conceptually huge, such as what sort of bodies make for excellent dancers. Free your mind and let the season’s…
Mossback Monday: Why Are Techies Avoiding the Central Business District?
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Curbed Seattle’s Strange, Weird & Terrible Real Estate Listing Photos are Brilliant
I must give major props to Sean Keeley, the editor over at Curbed Seattle, for pulling together such insane and ridiculously hilarious real estate listing photos every Friday. Essentially, the site’s This Week in Strange, Weird & Terrible Real Estate Listing Photos posts give me the will to keep on living after long work weeks….
The Must List: Dancing Til Dusk, a Mid-Week Fashion Fete and Classical Music in Quilcene
What to do this weekend
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Lifelong Thrift Gets a Facelift
!–paging_filter–pThrifters take note: The Lifelong AIDS Alliance’s a href=”http://www.llaa.org/get-involved/thrift-store” target=”_blank”Lifelong Thrift store/a has recently undergone a renovation and is better than ever. They’ve moved the housewares and given that section almost twice the square footage, in addition they’ve added double the hanging racks, mingled the clothing by type rather than gender, improved merchandise organization and…
Hitchcock Madrona Welcome Faris
!–paging_filter–pOne of our fave local jewelry designers, a href=”http://farisfaris.com/” target=”_blank”Faris Du Graf/a, has been picked up by a href=”http://\/\/seattlemag.com.239elwb01.blackmesh.com/hitchcock-madrona“Hitchcock Madrona/a (because they know a good thing when they see it) who is hosting a welcoming party and trunk show for the designer on Thursday, August 22 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. This is your chance…
Happy Anniversary, Ivar’s!
A few bits of trivia from the just released Ivar's Seafood Cookbook
As Ivar’s marks 75 strange and successful years bringing seafood, marketing mania and fishy wordplay to Seattle, we reel in a few delicious bits of trivia (do you know which one isn’t quite true?) from the just released Ivar’s Seafood Cookbook: The O-fish-al Guide to Cooking the Northwest Catch (Sasquatch, $29.95). 1. Haglund convinced a…
The Best Lingerie Shops
While clothes can make the woman, it’s what’s underneath that can make her feel great. Downtown’s Nancy Meyer (1318 Fifth Ave.; 206.625.9200; nancymeyer.com) has been providing tasteful underpinnings for 35 years and was one of the first boutiques to introduce European brands such as La Perla and Eres to the United States. Nancy Meyer is…