SIFF celebrated its annual Gay-La event at Pnk Ultra Lounge after showing the film aEœAugustaE at the Egyptian Theater. People danced to Gaga, ate meaty appetizers and the bartender blew fire.

With shimmering costumes, engaging dance numbers, and the attitude to match, Land of the Sweets: The Burlesque Nutcracker put a glam and saucy twist on a holiday classic.

Crowds went wild this past Friday when Jay-Z and Kanye West brought their cross-country tour to the Tacoma Dome. Some fans even rapped their way into the event at Kube 93 FMs rapping contest.

Tons of sexy firemen gathered at Babeland to celebrate the release of their newest pin-up style calendar for the WSCFF Burn Foundation. Check out the hotness.

The Washington Beer Commission’s 2011 Winter Beer Festival showcased a variety of winter seasonals from 30 Washington breweries. It brought tons of eager beer drinkers to Halles Paladium.

Every last Saturday of the month, The Emerald City Soul Club presents Talcum, a dance night of rare and northern soul at Chop Suey! A medley of soul DJs rotate throughout the night, spinning old 45’s to a packed and snazzy dancefloor. Talcum powder covers the floor, allowing guests the fun of slipping and sliding around to great hits. The soul club also hosts second Tuesdays at Lo-Fi Lounge, which boasts two dancefloors!

Gwar brought their horror film-inspired outfits, graphic stage performance and obscene lyrics to Seattle recently. Check out the gore.

Check out these awesomely naughty pumpkins that Babeland carved for all of those late night walkers to indulge in.

Partiers left their heads, inhibitions and clothes at home last Friday night when Freaknight rattled WAMU Theatre for the 15th time.

Partiers left their heads, inhibitions and clothes at home last Friday night when Freaknight rattled WAMU Theatre for the 15th time.

Fans gathered at the Key Arena to see Journey and Foreigner. These people were pumped to see such rock legends.

Lykke Li and Grimes made it out to Seattle to own the stage and make a statement. Lykke Li brought the raw emotional tracks from her second album to life while Grimes got you lost in her unique sound.

Dreads, Neon Hair and Fish Nets were among the many fun styles being sported at the Portishead concert this year.

Michael Jackson and Prince fans gathered at the Nectar Lounge last weekend to dance their booties off and pay respect to the legends.

Horror film junkies came out to celebrate EMP’s new exhibit, Can’t Look Away: The Lure of Horror Film. Held in the Sky Church, Fashionably Undead Bash: A Totally Killer Dance Party allowed people to embrace their inner freak and dress like the living dead.

Folks got together a month early to celebrate Oktoberfest. There is never a wrong time for beer, lederhosen and dirndls.

People came to Baltic Room to relive their high school days in the the 90s. They came blinged out and hatted up to recreate most epic 90s school portrait. The dance floor got freaky!

Gavin Rossdale’s appearance at the Neptune proved that horny women still love Bush.

Yes those are bug skewers, and yes folks gathered for a full on bug feast at The Bug Banquet!

For the past 6 years, 80s Video Dance Attack has rocked Portland every Friday night and this year made its Seattle debut. Seattle dance attackers did not disappoint, with some of the most awesome outfits we’ve seen since middle school.

Age old enemies, pirates and ninjas came out to Capitol Hill for a 10 hour pub crawl to drink and duke it out.

Tattoo enthusiasts and artists congregated at the Seattle Center to share their love for the enduring art form and showcase their talent.

Emily – winner of the best Katy Perry boob impersonation contest (seriously). Check out more boobs here

The swanky karaoke spot, Rock Box, hosted a super happy happy hour for lovers of all things Harajuku/Tokyo street/cosplay/kawaii.

Mario Lopez came to the super-swank VIP opening party for the new Munchbar and Piano Bash restaurants in Bellevue Square.

Babes for Boobs, a breast cancer benefit group, celebrated the launch of its new calendar with a party at El Corazon. There were bands, DJs, a vegan bake sale, and most importantly, hot girls willing to bare it all to slay the beast that is breast cancer.

The Prince of Darkness swept into Seattle last weekend as part of his solo world tour. Slash opened the show with Spokane native Myles Kennedy providing the vocals.

Lovers of chocolate, booze, and each other, showed up for a pre-Valentine’s festival of all that is yummy in this world. Chocofest was held at the Pike Brewing Company and featured local artisanal chocolates, beer, wine, whiskey, mead and more.

The Atomic Bombshells thrilled at their third annual Valentine’s Day show on Feb. 13. True to form, the performers teased, vamped, and reminded their crowd why the Atomic Bombshells are one of Seattle’s favorite burlesque troupes.

Seattle had several riots over the past year regarding police brutality. Our photo intern claims he was pushed, shoved, spit on, tripped, threatened, and inhaled pepper spray. Luckily he made it out OK with no injuries or damaged equipment.

The NW Women’s Show has attracted crowds for over two decades because of its ability to bring the women of the Northwest products and performances they’ll love. Case in point? The sizzling Fashion on Fire benefit show, which featured Washington’s hottest firemen strutting the catwalk in pretty much nothing but their drawers.

Revelers were out en force during this year’s St. Patrick’s Day evening at Fado, Owl and Thistle, Kell’s, The Dubliner in Fremont, and Conor Byrne in Ballard.

The creative folks of the Can Can brought Viva Oz Vegas to the Triple Door featuring performances by the self-proclaimed Mexican Elvis, El Vez, Las Vegas Exotic World winners The Heavenly Spies and Nanda, Bing Wheeler of Big Wheel Bingo, Herr Doppelganger, award-winning breakdancer Yoshi Wright and many more.

Sub-Pop favorites, Foals, popped across the pond to play for a packed house at the Showbox. Fans waiting outside even got to enjoy a rare thing in Seattle, some spare sunbeams on the skin.

Known for its often randy productions, The Can Can, located in the heart of Pike Place Market, featured Show Pony, a cabaret show filled with astonishing acrobatic talent starring the Can Can Castaways.

Ra Ra Riot Concert Goers at Moe Bar, raising a glass to indie rock!

The Showbox SODO was literally overrun with hot women competing to represent rock station KISW as one of its Rock Girl. The images speak for themselves.

The Showbox SODO was literally overrun with hot women competing to represent rock station KISW as one of its Rock Girl. The images speak for themselves.

The Triple Door presented Through the Looking Glass: A Burlesque Alice in Wonderland which can only mean one thing: a damn good time. Mixing music styles like Indian, jazz and classical with dance styles like ballet and tap, the whimsical characters pulled onlookers into a spectacle of fun.

The stage, previously pitch black, was now lit up with a projection of crisscrossing, dim white lines, aimed from the foot of the stage so that the patterns played out on Danilova’s white cloak. Already, this was a spectacle, but when Danilova lowered the hood of her cloak and stepped up to the microphone, shit got real. Check out the rest here.

Wanda Jackson and pals literally brought the fire when they came to Neumos this past year. You’ll understand what we mean when you check out the rest of the slideshow here.

Yacht isn’t just a band. It’s a way of living and reaching out to others. And this past year, they did just that by going into the audience and engaging what they call the spectator during their performances.

It’s no surprise that the son of Fela Kuti, the creator of Afrobeat, would use his lyrics to motivate the masses for social and political change. Femi Kuti did not just blow up the stage, but he also blew the minds of everyone in the audience. Even if you’re a wallflower by nature, nothing could stop your body from these powerful beats.

To say that the FIRED UP! crowd was fired up is putting it lightly. The pitch and decibel of the screaming was so loud that we walked in to the Snoqualmie Casino ballroom, cringed, and walked out. To be fair, the hundreds – if not thousands – of ladies squealing with delight were all doing so on behalf of the Washington State Burn Foundation and the HOT firefighters trying out for the 2012 Hot Firefighter calendar fundraiser.

Fans dressed up in their most tacky, shiny and sparkly clothes to attend the Yelle concert at Neumos.

The Seattle Erotic Art Festival enveloped Fremont over the weekend, bringing a heady mix of visual art, installation art, literary art, films, performances and parties to an adventurous crowd.

Die hard Naughty By Nature gathered The Showbox to watch the hip hop legends get down.

Intense raving occurred at the Beyond Wonderland show with artists like David Guetta and LMFAO.