Though I’m a firm advocate of the you’ll-eat-your-broccoli-and-you’ll-like-it school of concert programming, I have no objection to fluff, especially at…
Spark: A Burning Man Story Runs Fri., Sept. 6-Sun., Sept. 8 at SIFF Cinema Uptown. Not rated. 90 minutes. Believers in…
It started with an August 1 announcement out of left field—or out of the midfield, rather: The Seattle Sounders had…
This summer’s Seattle Opera performances of Richard Wagner’s The Ring of the Nibelung may or may not be the last…
My favorite burlesque routine is one I saw performed some years ago by the lovely Lily Verlaine. “Wearing” nothing above…
Of the novelties and surprises of Ludovic Morlot’s tenure as the Seattle Symphony’s new music director, none have been as…
It wasn’t the Spartan, warehousy utilitarianism of Lower Queen Anne’s Silver Platters that gave it its irresistible pull, but the…
A romantic tableau greets you in the front window of Gargoyles on the Ave: one skeleton on bended knee proposing…
With its shelves packed to bursting, Kinokuniya is like the Mr. Creosote of bookstores: Just one more Haruki Murakami, you…
A little luxe, a little retro, one side of Lucky Strike is a huge room full of driver-simulation games and…
Several of this season’s new Seattle Sounders have made a major impact, but almost all were known quantities with established…
Despite the apartment-dominating flat-screen my plus-one insists on having, it’s still more fun to watch the Sounders’ away games among…
Illyria Taproot Theatre, 204 N. 85th St., 781-9707, taproottheatre.org. $25–$40. Runs Wed.–Sun. Ends Aug. 17. What’s best about Illyria (by…
“Do you have any idea?” “No, not at all.” “They’ve certainly done a good job keeping this under wraps.” Such…
Somehow, after a century as a “comic opera” (or “operetta,” a more accurate and more obsolete term), Gilbert and Sullivan’s…
“Do you have any idea?” “No, not at all.” “They’ve certainly done a good job keeping this under wraps.” And…
In the top left corner of the first page of his score for Become Ocean, where most any other composer…
“More than any other breed of human being,” The New Yorker’s Anthony Lane once posited, “composers have suffered at the…
La Voix Humaine/ Suor Angelica McCaw Hall, 321 Mercer St. (Seattle Center), 389-7676, seattleopera.org. $25 and up. 7:30 p.m. Wed. &…
Boeing Boeing Seattle Repertory Theatre, 155 Mercer St. (Seattle Center), 443-2222, seattlerep.org. $15–$80. Runs Wed.–Sun. Ends May 19. Everything good…
