Arts & Culture
The Year of the Rooster, Featuring Dancing Lions and $3 Delicacies
This weekend marks the Lunar New Year, the International District’s biggest day of the year.
Arts & Culture
Seizing the Memes of Production
Meet the army of young leftists fighting a surreal war of ideas on the Internet.
Music
Premiere: ZELLi’s “Solid” Music Video Brings It Back to the Golden Age
Nodding to the hip-hop/R&B pop divas of the 2000s, ZELLi breathes new life into a classic style.
Music
Good Person Recordings on Making Art (Not) For Art’s Sake
Post-Trump, as artists re-evaluate their political efficacy, two punks already provided a blueprint.
Music
Blackout Dates Be Damned—DoNormaal Dominated 2016 By Doing What She Wants
Flouting industry norms, the rapper played nearly 100 Seattle shows in 2016. The city showed up.
Arts & Culture
The Top 10 Things to Do Through Early January
Bid farewell to Fly Moon Royalty, support The Globalist, see Henry Rollins’ spoken word and more.
Film
Eight Decades Later, Tacoma’s 1927 Lost Film ‘Eyes of the Totem’ Makes Its Seattle Debut
The relic from the days of Tacoma’s dreams as a ‘Hollyood-by-the-Sea’ shows at Northwest Film Forum.
Arts & Culture
Cyber-Thinker Minh Nguyen on Political Art in 2016 and the Nature of Digital Resistance
Talking electronic civil disobedience with Town Hall’s artist-in-residence and creator of Chat Room.
Music
The Best Local Records We Heard This November
A garbage month. But Bujemane, Guayaba, Moving Pictures, and New Information made it a bit better.
Arts & Culture
A Bioregional Declaration of Interdependence
Interest in Cascadia has reached a new high. Now, proponents have to articulate what it truly means.
News
Seattle Felt Very Far Away From the United States Last Night
Unified not only against Trump, but its support for a slate of issues, the city bellowed its values.
Arts & Culture
Suffer Through Plague-Stricken Europe in Julia Gfrörer’s Devastating Comic ‘Laid Waste’
The Fantagraphics author’s new graphic novella continues her brilliant bleak streak.
Music
The Star-Studded, Experimental Indigenous Funk of Khu.éex’
Tlingit meets funk with Preston Singletary and the late Funkadelic keyboardist Bernie Worrell.
Music
The Best Local Records We Heard This October
Don’t drink the Seattle haterade—listen to Remember Face, Nail Polish, Trans FX, and Benoît Pioulard.
Music
Nail Polish Writes the Punk Music 2016’s Identity-Consuming, Social-Media World Deserves
Seattle’s most #Authentic band.
Arts & Culture
Seattle’s Virtual Road to Transcendence
The most interesting VR developers in town aren’t making video games—they want to make us more human.
Arts & Culture
Top-Notch New York Cabaret Comes to Seattle Via a Joe’s Pub Pipeline
In a cross-continental exchange, Teatro Zinzanni is hosting the Big Apple’s best cabaret performers.
Arts & Culture
Seattle Comics Journalist Sarah Glidden’s New Graphic Novel Isn’t Afraid to Admit Journalism Is Weird
‘Rolling Blackouts’ follows the author and her peers at ‘The Globalist’ through Syria, Iraq, and Turkey.
Music
The Best Local Records We Heard This September Found Power in Simplicity
J’Von, Freaks of Nature, CC Dust, and Swooning stood out by paring it down.