Arts & Culture
The Station on Beacon Hill Is Putting On the Best Block Party of the Summer
Start small, and you can do it too.
Arts & Culture
How Two Brothers From Silverdale Made The World’s Most Complex Video Game
At ten years old, Dwarf Fortress has become one of the most influential contemporary video games, and it’s…
Music
The Elverum Family Seeking Donations After Inoperable Cancer Diagnosis
Geneviève Elverum, Anacortes musician, comic artist, new mom, and wife of Phil Elverum, needs help funding treatment for…
Arts & Culture
The Top Five Northwest Acts You Need to Check Out This Festival Season
DoNormaal, JusMoni, Chanti Darling, The Dip, and Jo Passed.
Arts & Culture
Measuring the Homogenization of the Music Festival
Are music festivals truly all the same now? We crunched the data for 21 NW fests to find…
Music
The Best Local Records We Heard This May
Despite the onslaught of sad news this month, the local scene kept pumping out gold nuggets.
Arts & Culture
RAMZi on the Spirits, Cartoon SFX, and Healing Bird Noises Behind Her Alien Jungle Music
Phoebé Guillemot’s unclassifiable sonic universe is like a safari through a mutant forest.
Arts & Culture
In Its Ninth Iteration, Debacle Fest Expands ‘Experimental’
Given the silo-centric culture here in Seattle, the notion of uniting the city’s disparate scenes might also be…
Arts & Culture
C.M. Ruiz Talks About Turning The Lusty Lady Into a Giant Gallery
The poster artist discusses his new show, changing Seattle, time travel, and feces.
Music
The Best Local Records We Heard This April
Activist hip-hop, occult rap, and weirdo punk made our month.
Music
The Leaked Bumbershoot Lineup Was the Real Deal
A Redditor named “CoogiMonster” beat AEG to the punch, but did it really even matter?
Music
Spekulation Continues Local Hip-Hop’s Uncle Ike’s Resistance
“I don’t think Uncle Ike’s is the cause of the problem,” Watson notes, “but I’ll be damned if…
Music
Hip-Hop Activist Draze on Uncle Ike’s, Community Justice, Political Rap, and Being a Dad
The clearest and most incisive recent critique of the capital forces changing the Central District came last week…
Arts & Culture
Seattle Comics Gangs Unite at ECCC Alternative ‘Hometown Heroes’
Emerald City Comicon’s corporate takeover inspired local creators to start their own Seattle-centric event as an antidote—the result…
Arts & Culture
‘Encyclopedia Greenwoodia’ Gets Adults and Kids Alike Writing About a Neighborhood
“Mr. Gyros is as amazing as the movie Transformers: Age of Extinction and I would recommend it to…
Music
The Best Local Records We Heard This March
Man in Tree was a living tarot card. The image of the quintessentially Northwestern man (lumberjack beard, lumberjack…
Arts & Culture
Panels From the Past: 40 Years of Seattle Weekly Comix
A look back at four decades of local artists’ provincial puns, surreal strips, and feminist funnies.
News
Using Nature as Inspiration, Architects and Designers Are Building Seattle’s Biofuture
“Look at that bamboo out there.”
Arts & Culture
Daniel Clowes’s New Time-Travelling Graphic Novel Is His Longest and Most Optimistic Yet
Daniel Clowes says that his new 180-page book, Patience, is the most “comic-like” comic he has ever done.
Arts & Culture
‘The Complete Wimmen’s Comix’ Is 728 Herstory-Making Pages of Ladies Kicking Ass
Sausage isn’t a staple of French cuisine. Despite that, somehow, the jurors at the 43rd annual Angoulême International…