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Your Guide to Halloween in Seattle and Beyond
The Pacific Northwest was made for this time of year. Here’s how to celebrate it.
It’s spooky season in Washington, which means haunted farms, fall festivals, pumpkin carving, costume contests for pets and people alike, and more. Here are some of the best ways to celebrate Halloween in Seattle and beyond. Halloween Fun and Frights in Snohomish October 10-11, 16-18, 22-25, 29-31, November 1 Stocker Farms Visiting a pumpkin patch…
Styled Child: Meet Seattle Kidswear Brand Rapozza
From a basement startup to a Pacific Place boutique, the family-run label is making colorful children's clothing with staying power.
For Rapozza, a locally owned and designed children’s clothing brand, the phrase “moving on up” describes the company’s evolution in more ways than one. Founded by Brenda Palomino in 2023, Rapozza launched from a basement with online sales, then jumped to local makers markets, and most recently, opened its first brick-and-mortar location in Pacific Place….
Get Blown Away: Seattle’s Glass Art Scene Takes Center Stage
Now in its 8th year, Refract Seattle is the region’s premier celebration of glassblowing—arguably the most famous visual art genre in the Pacific Northwest. Pioneered by names like Dale Chihuly, Ginny Ruffner, Lino Tagliapietra, and Preston Singletary, glassblowing has remained among the area’s most prolific creative outputs, with contemporary talents such as John Hogan, Julie…
Kishi Bashi Is Ready to Feel Everything
Ten years after Sonderlust pushed his music in a new direction, he’s bringing the pivotal album to The Crocodile—and playing it in full for the first time.
Back in March of 2012, I snagged a last-minute ticket to see Of Montreal at the Showbox. As amazing as Kevin Barnes and company were, along with tourmates Deerhoof, the biggest impression made on me was the opener, Kishi Bashi. Armed with little more than a violin, a loop pedal, and a pristine voice, Kishi…
Seattle’s Artists of Color Expo Offers an Inside Look at the Creative Life
The October 9-11 gathering features live art-making and hands-on workshops, with Seattle artist Damon Brown delivering the keynote.
More than 100 artists participate each year in Seattle’s Artists of Color Expo & Symposium (ACES), which brings exhibitions, artist talks, live art-making, and workshops under one roof. Visitors can learn a technique from an artist or hear how a childhood memory became the starting point for a piece. This year’s event takes place October…
Opening Night: Coffee TAB Brings Coffee Back to 23rd and Jackson
The nonprofit’s third cafe turns the long-vacant former Starbucks space into a new community gathering place.
For a Starbucks, the coffee shop on the corner of 23rd Avenue and Jackson Street in the Central District has spawned a lot of discourse. When it opened in 1997, it was the product of a lot of behind-the-scenes efforts by neighborhood boosters and civic leaders who were hunting for more investment in the historically…
Seattle Author Kristen Millares Young Follows Her ‘Desire Lines’
Blurring the lines between desire and expectation, her debut memoir explores what women inherit, sacrifice, and claim for themselves.
In her debut memoir, local author Kristen Millares Young dives straight into precarious experience of being a woman. Blending myth, history, personal essay, and travelogue, Desire Lines (Red Hen Press), out October 6, is an unflinching look at the challenge of balancing one’s own desires with the demands of motherhood, marriage, and work, and the…
Inn at Langley: Where the Shore Meets the Sky
After a property-wide redesign, the Whidbey Island retreat reopens with a locally inspired take on vacationing in the Pacific Northwest.
Michelin-star chef Johnny Spero never planned to end up in the Pacific Northwest. A lifelong East Coaster born and raised in Baltimore, he began his culinary career at 16, working for a series of big-name chefs and restaurants before opening his own establishments in Washington, D.C., including Reverie, which earned him his Michelin star in…
Rearview Mirror: Big Laughs at Seattle Rep, a Sloth Surprise, and a Good Read
Things I did, saw, ate, learned, or read in the past week (or so).
AGREE TO DISAGREE Earlier this week, I took my teenage daughter to see Eureka Day at Seattle Rep, and we both loved it. Jonathan Spector’s Tony-winning comedy is set at a progressive private school in Berkeley, where the people in charge insist on reaching agreement before making decisions. Then a case of mumps forces a…
Restaurant Roundup: Hey Bagel Heads West and Squash Dessert Cravings
Here’s what was served up recently in the Emerald City.
It’s your birthday? Congratulations on another trip around the sun. Don’t worry, we won’t ambush you with singing waitstaff, but there are plenty of ways Seattle restaurants can make your special day even more memorable, from intimate settings for private celebrations to that dish you won’t stop thinking about for the next 365 days (like…
Studio Sessions: Kelly Bjork
Fresh off the opening of a solo gallery show, Kelly Bjork talks working in pencil, the turning point in their career, and staying authentic in their art.
A longtime fixture in the local art scene, Kelly Bjork creates works that are intimate, relatable, and that hum with emotion. Working with pencil and paint, Bjork’s illustrations—often vibrantly colored and patterned—give viewers a glance into scenes of domesticity, highlighting simple moments between humans (or between a human and a place) that make up daily…
Rachel Marsh Knows a Good Joke Takes Work
The Bothell-raised actor talks about trusting her comic instincts and making a beloved character her own in the new rom-com The Love Hypothesis.
Rachel Marsh, who grew up in Bothell, has been building an eclectic résumé with roles in Prime Video’s Fallout and Hulu’s Adults. Now she’s stepping into the romantic-comedy spotlight with The Love Hypothesis, which began streaming on Prime Video Sept. 23. Based on Ali Hazelwood’s bestselling 2021 novel, the film stars Lili Reinhart as Olive…
The Cult of Family Worship Center
The Portland band sounds like a long-lost '70s relic, right down to the mysterious religious backstory.
The internet may never be able to replicate the experience of digging through a box of vinyl and pulling out something completely inexplicable, something that might have only ever been heard by a few dozen people. In those albums, you can sense an untold story. Such private presses, what one might uncharitably call “vanity projects,”…
What’s on Screen at Diwa Filipino Film Festival
Family histories, migrant stories, political struggles, ghosts, romance, and an unexpected dose of comedy shape this year’s lineup.
Before Adrian Alarilla had an international film lineup to consider, there was a loft at Seattle Center to fill. Organizers of the Pagdiriwang Philippine Festival—part of the Festál series—wanted to expand their arts programming and make better use of the Armory’s upstairs space. A friend suggested adding movies and recommended Alarilla to lead the effort….
WALKDONTRUN Offers a Different Way to See Downtown
The one-day art festival brings new life to familiar corners of the city.
How often do you linger in the central business district of downtown on the weekend? If you’re like me, not terribly often. Certain blocks can feel a little forlorn once the weekday workers empty out—or perhaps not forlorn so much as waiting for their purpose. On Saturday, September 19, plenty of new purpose flourished (and…
Pacific Northwest Ballet Opens Its Season with Heart
Serenade pairs Balanchine’s romantic sweep with a revealing new work by Jessica Lang and a jubilant finale from Alexei Ratmansky.
Finding stillness can be challenging. To pause without scrolling or anticipating the next thing on a to-do list, especially at the change of the seasons. It is well-timed, then, that Pacific Northwest Ballet’s 2026-27 season-opening program Serenade is rich in sensory experiences: light, color, movement, stillness—and the value of the calm spaces in between. The…
The Burger That Saved My Marriage
When a closure on I-405 derails date night, Great State Burger comes to the rescue.
The plan was flawless, which, as every married person knows, meant it was immediately in danger. In an earnest attempt to be a good husband, I had arranged a Saturday night date in Bellevue: dinner at Fogo de Chao, followed by a movie at Cinemark in Lincoln Square. I made the reservation and bought tickets….
5 Cozy Fall Outings
Sweater weather is here. These five adventures make a strong case for getting out and embracing it.
Autumn is the absolute best. I start pulling out sweaters and scarves before the weather even remotely justifies it, then spend weeks happily overdressed. I love the whole production—noodle soups, spicy drinks, crunchy leaves, dark afternoons, fogged-up windows. Bring it on! Here are five ways to make the most of every minute. 1. Dates after…
Restaurant Roundup: Haunted Cocktails and Free Chicken
Here’s what was served up recently in the Emerald City.
And then there were three. Tutta Bella will close its downtown and Columbia City pizzerias on Oct. 2, leaving just the shops in Wallingford, Bellevue, and Issaquah. The move to shutter its flagship location on Rainier Avenue South ends a 22-year run, and further solidifies the company’s plans to focus on grab-and-go Neapolitan-style pies, pastas,…
All Aboard! Amtrak’s New Airo Trains Arrive This Fall
The long-awaited fleet makes its Pacific Northwest debut Sept. 30 on the Amtrak Cascades route.
A date that Pacific Northwest train riders and advocates have long awaited is finally nigh. Amtrak’s sleek, amenity-packed new trains will debut on the Cascades intercity route on Sept. 30. Amtrak leaders previewed the launch of commercial service of the “Airo” fleet in an event streamed live on YouTube Thursday. “This is one of the…
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