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SIFF for the Food-Minded Set: Bon Appetit

​That first "F" in SIFF stands for film, not food, but there's plenty of onscreen eating at the festival to entertain the culinary-minded moviegoer. As a supplement to Seattle Weekly's coverage of the Seattle International Film Festival, Voracious will highlight the program's films of particul ... More >>

SIFF: Week 2 Picks & Pans

​That first "F" in SIFF stands for film, not food, but there's plenty of onscreen eating at the festival to entertain the culinary-minded moviegoer. As a supplement to Seattle Weekly's coverage of the Seattle International Film Festival, Voracious will highlight the program's films of particul ... More >>

SIFF Countdown Begins, Now Without Al Pacino

© Universal Studios"Say hello to my little SIFF!"​Tickets for the nation's largest film festival--measured by attendance--go on sale today, and the whole schedule between Thursday, May 19 and Sunday, June 12 can also be searched via the SIFF site. Our annual guide to the Seattle International ... More >>

SIFF Week 3: 30 New Picks & Pans

© Universal Studios"Say hello to my little SIFF!"​Tickets for the nation's largest film festival--measured by attendance--go on sale today, and the whole schedule between Thursday, May 19 and Sunday, June 12 can also be searched via the SIFF site. Our annual guide to the Seattle International ... More >>

SIFF Week 2: Picks & Pans

© Universal Studios"Say hello to my little SIFF!"​Tickets for the nation's largest film festival--measured by attendance--go on sale today, and the whole schedule between Thursday, May 19 and Sunday, June 12 can also be searched via the SIFF site. Our annual guide to the Seattle International ... More >>

SIFF Week 1: Picks and Pans

© Universal Studios"Say hello to my little SIFF!"​Tickets for the nation's largest film festival--measured by attendance--go on sale today, and the whole schedule between Thursday, May 19 and Sunday, June 12 can also be searched via the SIFF site. Our annual guide to the Seattle International ... More >>

Tonight: The Morning Benders at the Crocodile Philip Glass in Kirkland

Weston Walker​The Morning Benders, with Miniature Tiger, BOAT. Crocodile, 2200 Second Ave., 441-7416. 8 p.m. $10. The Morning Benders' new record, Big Echo, is garnering praise for its sunny and sparkly-clean sound, a palpable shift from their dinning, jangly 2008 debut, Talking Through Tin Ca ... More >>

Philip Glass

Weston Walker​The Morning Benders, with Miniature Tiger, BOAT. Crocodile, 2200 Second Ave., 441-7416. 8 p.m. $10. The Morning Benders' new record, Big Echo, is garnering praise for its sunny and sparkly-clean sound, a palpable shift from their dinning, jangly 2008 debut, Talking Through Tin Ca ... More >>

The Short List: The Week's Recommended Shows

Weston Walker​The Morning Benders, with Miniature Tiger, BOAT. Crocodile, 2200 Second Ave., 441-7416. 8 p.m. $10. The Morning Benders' new record, Big Echo, is garnering praise for its sunny and sparkly-clean sound, a palpable shift from their dinning, jangly 2008 debut, Talking Through Tin Ca ... More >>

The Weekly Wire: The Week's Recommended Events

Weston Walker​The Morning Benders, with Miniature Tiger, BOAT. Crocodile, 2200 Second Ave., 441-7416. 8 p.m. $10. The Morning Benders' new record, Big Echo, is garnering praise for its sunny and sparkly-clean sound, a palpable shift from their dinning, jangly 2008 debut, Talking Through Tin Ca ... More >>

Spring Arts Calendar

A guide to what’s up and what’s on, with our picks for the best.

The Weekly Wire: This Week's Recommended Events

A guide to what’s up and what’s on, with our picks for the best.

Kronos Quartet

A guide to what’s up and what’s on, with our picks for the best.

SIFF Week 3: Picks & Pans

By Brian Miller and SW Staff

SIFF Review: Sweet Crude

"This is not the movie I intended to make," begins local filmmaker Sandy Cioffi's intermittent narration at the opening of her documentary. I'm positive she never imagined that a documentary on a library built in a poor community in the Niger Delta would lead her into a passion project about the env ... More >>

SIFF Review: ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction

I saw at a disadvantage when I saw this film: I was alone, watching a screener at home for this feature story. It was funny, but this is a film to see in a crowd, where the exuberance of an audience becomes a part of the experience. And this homegrown film is made for Seattle audiences, a horror mov ... More >>

SIFF Week 1: Picks & Pans

I saw at a disadvantage when I saw this film: I was alone, watching a screener at home for this feature story. It was funny, but this is a film to see in a crowd, where the exuberance of an audience becomes a part of the experience. And this homegrown film is made for Seattle audiences, a horror mov ... More >>

Your SIFF Map and Exercise Guide

According to SIFF, its five main venues will be SIFF Cinema, Pacific Place, the Uptown, Egyptian, and Harvard Exit. (The satellite cinemas we'll discuss after the jump.) This means that SIFFgoers will have to precisely calculate their schedules and transit time when shuttling between screens during ... More >>

SIFF's Eastside Incursion

The Seattle International Film Festival, which begins May 21, has had a spotty record on the Eastside. It tried screenings at Lincoln Square in 2007, a nice gesture to filmgoers on that side of the lake, though there weren't many offerings compared to the main venues over here in Seattle. SIFF retre ... More >>

El Vez

The Seattle International Film Festival, which begins May 21, has had a spotty record on the Eastside. It tried screenings at Lincoln Square in 2007, a nice gesture to filmgoers on that side of the lake, though there weren't many offerings compared to the main venues over here in Seattle. SIFF retre ... More >>

El Vez

The Seattle International Film Festival, which begins May 21, has had a spotty record on the Eastside. It tried screenings at Lincoln Square in 2007, a nice gesture to filmgoers on that side of the lake, though there weren't many offerings compared to the main venues over here in Seattle. SIFF retre ... More >>

Caveman and Catechism May Not Be Great

But they've been doing it right for years.

SATURDAY

Opera in HD, A Wedding Murder Mystery, and Peking Acrobats

A Boy Choir, Folk Flavor, and Cutting-Edge Electroacoustic Music

Sound art, in all genres.

Dance: Relatively Real

From cell biology to group dynamics.

Dance Calendar

A gymnastically stretchy and bendy world.

Fall Dance

A gymnastically stretchy and bendy world.

July 12-19, 2006

Batman outdoors, Busby Berkeley, and the overlooked landmark that is Xanadu.

June 21-28, 2006

All hail Jim Henson!

Romeo and Juliet and Seattle Baroque

All hail Jim Henson!

Synapse, Symmetry, 1776

June 8-14, 2005

Vela Luka Croatian Dance Ensemble, Saint Helens String Quartet

June 8-14, 2005

Fall Arts Calendar

June 8-14, 2005

Visual Arts Calendar

June 8-14, 2005

Performance Picks

June 8-14, 2005

Fraud, Marc Spitz, and More

June 8-14, 2005

Performance Picks

June 8-14, 2005

Calendar

June 8-14, 2005

Festivities

A guide to holiday happenings in the area

Lama-rama

Monks who sing and dance.

Stage picks

Monks who sing and dance.

Shadow dancing

Stanley Perryman shone, but the other Spectrum dancers were in the dark.

Jack of all trades

Kirkland Performance Center wants to provide an Eastside haven for the arts. Two recent shows suggest it just may be up to it.

Fall Arts Preview - Theater

Kirkland Performance Center wants to provide an Eastside haven for the arts. Two recent shows suggest it just may be up to it.

Boom or bus?

Surveying Seattle theater, after the latest gold rush

Fall Arts Preview - Classical Music

Orchestral

Seattle's big Ben

Benaroya Hall rings in a new classical era