Too many donuts, too many IPAs, too much ice cream. We’ve all got our shameful secret calories to burn off,…
First published in 1956, John Okada’s debut novel was essentially forgotten twice. No-No Boy was hardly read in the ’50s,…
Jerry Manning’s unexpected death this May, following a heart procedure, was a huge blow for the Seattle theater community—extending far…
There are some things you just can’t find on the Internet. You can look up certain movies on IMDb, sure,…
Opening here August 22 at the Guild 45th and Lincoln Square, the indie road-trip movie Land Ho! has already received…
You like Transformers IV at the local mall? We prefer Snowpiercer with a nice IPA. Since reopening the Uptown, SIFF’s…
Now 46 years old, The Grand Illusion Cinema is Seattle’s most venerable indie screening venue, a nonprofit largely run by…
Sylvia Wolf’s position as museum director just got a little more secure, and the Henry Art Gallery’s budget gained a…
Still on view through September 7, SAM’s all-native show Modernism in the Pacific Northwest: The Mythic and the Mystical focuses…
The winner of its biannual Gwendolyn Knight/Jacob Lawrence Prize, SAM brought young Pennsylvania photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier to town for…
It’s every artist’s nightmare: You’re invited to show your work in some important, far-off city—well, Salem, Oregon—and the truck transporting…
Before the Wrights or the Shirleys or other local arts patrons began collecting in Seattle, the tiny postwar gallery scene…
The Brooklyn duo of Stephen Nguyen and Wade Kavanaugh filled the Suyama Space atrium with 900 pounds of black craft…
Last month’s exhibit at Gallery4Culture by the Spokane-raised artist Scott Kolbo, recently transplanted to Seattle, was called Our Alley. Inspired…
Pioneer Square is, simultaneously, a struggling neighborhood and the center of the city’s arts scene—the latter anchored by the gallery/studio…
The city is full of traditional totem poles carved by Northwest tribal artists, who bear a distant kinship to the…
It’s a bit of a shock to see Dennis Hopper show up, suave and healthy, as a source in this…
It’s probably unfair for a former track runner to judge this movie by the standards of his sport, but I’m…
Photo by Anna Erickson •—————————————————–• SIFF artistic director Carl Spence began working for the festival in the early ’90s, not…
When Philip Seymour Hoffman died in February, he had several films half-completed or in the can. Their quality, as it…
