Joanne Garrett

Saturday 2/17

SATURDAY

Cosby, Grossology, Writers in the Schools, Vera Project Auction, Zines, and Kate Simko

Seattle Weekly's Recommended Events

WEDNESDAY: Total Recall, Art Films, You Suck!: A Love Story, and The Tiptons' Honking Saxes

JackStraw Launches Writers' Podcasts, Saving Puget Sound, and More

WEDNESDAY: Total Recall, Art Films, You Suck!: A Love Story, and The Tiptons' Honking Saxes

THURSDAY

The first of a new series of artists' talks at the Henry; two literary events with Stacey Levine and Jennifer Borges Foster (among many others), and a Billy Wilder film series at MOHAI

MONDAY

Martin Luther King Jr.'s Nobel Prize speech, as performed by the Mirror Stage Company, and Barbara Ehrenreich on our "capacity for collective ecstacy."

TUESDAY

David Lynch reads from his book, Catching the Big Fish, and screens his new movie, Inland Empire; Swiss Family Robinson for young readers.

Seattle Weekly's Recommended Events

WEDNESDAY: Nick's Book Club!

Radical Women & Masquerade Balls

SUNDAY: A half-dozen events that prove New Year's Eve to be about more than bubbly and kazoos.

Suffering Gaels

SATURDAY: An excuse to visit Lake Forest Park, and a hot, hot slideshow.

SATURDAY: Soul Music, Stargazing, Kazu Nomura + Dan Deacon at Gallery 1412

A soulful tip from Mayor Greg Nickels, and more.

FRIDAY: ReACT Theatre's How the Grinch Stole Christmas

A soulful tip from Mayor Greg Nickels, and more.

"Good luck and happy eating!" Food Phenom Rachael Ray Visits Seattle to Plug Her New Book

What to do Tuesday.

Seattle Weekly's Calendar of Recommended Events

Isabel Allende, Leslie Mackie, Kaspar Hauser and Indie Jewelry.

Friday's Action

Figgy Pudding Carolers, Velocity's Nextfest NW, and more.

What's up Friday

Salsa Congress in session, and more!

What's up Saturday

Twisted flicks, and more!

More ConWorks Changes

Also: Lots about the "L" word.

Special World City Edition

We're flavoring our annual review of the city's best with the freshest of ingredients: immigrant Seattleites.

Critics' Picks

Arts & Entertainment

North America

Arts & Entertainment

Hats Off

A tribute to Seattle artists and institutions lost and found in 2005.

Setting the Table

Gift ideas for inspiring togetherness, mindfulness, and thoughtful eating and drinking.

A Stargazer Is Born

Give the gift of the heavens for the holidays.

Scarlett Fever

Give the gift of the heavens for the holidays.

Cheap Gifts!

Looking for last-minute items for your loved ones? On a budget? Go no further than our second annual compendium of items under $50.

In Wicker, With Love

Show you care with a personalized basket of love.

Frankenocchio

Also: Aimee Phan, Scissor Sisters, Akira Kasai, and The French Connection.

This Week's Reads

Marjane Satrapi, Larry Kane, and Hari Kunzru.

Arts Picks

Jumpers, David Banner, The Shining, Howard Dean, and Dave Eggers

This Week's Reads

Sabina Murray and Robert Ferrigno.

Extreme Makeover Edition

• PEOPLE, POLITICS, & MEDIA
• ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
• FOOD & DRINK
• TURF: URBAN LIVING

Cooks' Books

• PEOPLE, POLITICS, & MEDIA
• ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
• FOOD & DRINK
• TURF: URBAN LIVING

Arts Picks

• PEOPLE, POLITICS, & MEDIA
• ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
• FOOD & DRINK
• TURF: URBAN LIVING

Cooks' Books

• PEOPLE, POLITICS, & MEDIA
• ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
• FOOD & DRINK
• TURF: URBAN LIVING

This Week's Reads

H.T. Hamann, Bett Williams, and Toby Cecchini.

Cheap Gifts!

Last-minute items for stressed-out wallets that will make you, the giver, look shrewd.

Contents

Last-minute items for stressed-out wallets that will make you, the giver, look shrewd.

Contents

Last-minute items for stressed-out wallets that will make you, the giver, look shrewd.

Retreats and Getaways

From the indulgent to the spartan, the solitary to the salacious, these outings have a physical and spiritual dimension.

Wife of the Chef: The True Story of a Restaurant and Romance

By Courtney Febbroriello (Clarkson/Potter, $24)

THE WORLD ON A PLATE

By Joel Denker (Westview Press, $24)

Year of the Rabbit, Chuck Palahnuik, and More

By Joel Denker (Westview Press, $24)

This Week's Reads

Bharti Kirchner, Douglas Coupland, Rupert Isaacson & Tanya Shaffer, Anthony Doerr, and Ann Cummins.

This Week's Reads

Dale Peterson, Ian Christie, Donald H. Rumsfeld, and Anthony Bourdain.

SW This Summer

The season's essential events.

Quick Reads

Robert Ferrigno and Z.Z. Packer.

Quick Reads

Andrew Vachss, Ruth Ozeki, Pico Ayer, and Michelle Lee.

Fight Night

Two combative takes—one meat, one veggie—on holiday dinners.