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Poetic Meditations in an Emergency

Arts & Culture

Poetic Meditations in an Emergency

Untold Passage considers the expressive, unquantifiable aspects of immigration.

Illustration by Taylor Dow

Arts & Culture

In Like a Lion

Cry it out, then get up! Leo season’s here.

NCTC’s November production of ‘The Big Meal.’ Photo by Christopher Monsos

Arts & Culture

New Century Theatre Company Leaving 12th Ave. Arts, Artistic Director Steps Down

New beginnings for NCTC.

Illustration by Taylor Dow

Arts & Culture

Push and Pull

A week of negotiations and self-editing.

Who Do I Call if I Find a Rat In My Toilet?

Comix

Who Do I Call if I Find a Rat In My Toilet?

Seattle and its sewers are home to double the national average of rats.

These Comics Grab Back

Arts & Culture

These Comics Grab Back

A website about consent and sexual assault arrives on bookshelves.

Kate Shindle as ‘Alison’ and Robert Petkoff as ‘Bruce’ in Fun Home. Photo by Joan Marcus

Arts & Culture

Kate Shindle on the Queer Activism That Led Her to ‘Fun Home’

Playing Alison Bechdel in a Broadway musical is the latest in the actor’s history of allyship.

Amie Siegel’s “Provenance (2013).” Courtesy of the artist and Simon Preston Gallery. Photo by Eileen Travell

Arts & Culture

A Chair, Yet So Much More

Sympathizing with inanimate objects in Amie Siegel’s Interiors.

The Art Is Full of Hot Air at BLOW UP

Arts & Culture

The Art Is Full of Hot Air at BLOW UP

The Factory’s collaboratory exhibition with Mount Analogue showcases inflatable art.

When It Comes to Sci-Fi, Seattle Is Spoiled

Arts & Culture

When It Comes to Sci-Fi, Seattle Is Spoiled

This week, three talented sci-fi authors share their work with local audiences.

The Avalanches

Arts & Culture

Feast at the Street Food Fest, Trip out with The Avalanches, and More of the Week’s Best Events

Your calendar for the days ahead.

Bleating and Competing at the 2017 Goatalympics

Arts & Culture

Bleating and Competing at the 2017 Goatalympics

The livestock was totally live at the Monroe competition.

Trowa Barton. Photo by Cesar Candelas

Music

The Best Local Records We Heard This June

Music befitting Junuary’s tropical depression.

Marvel Delivers a Well-Adjusted Spider-Teen

Film

Marvel Delivers a Well-Adjusted Spider-Teen

The latest reboot succeeds by swapping Peter Parker’s angst with daffy levity.

The Hallucinatory Entity Behind Zen Mother’s New Record

Music

The Hallucinatory Entity Behind Zen Mother’s New Record

‘I Was Made to Be Like Her’ emerged from visions, and charts a future path for psych as…

Megg, Mogg & Owl creator Simon Hanselmann will appear at this year’s fair.

Arts & Culture

Hot Off the Press Is Seattle’s Biggest Little Book Festival

Hosted by Fantagraphics, the low-key affair showcases some of the city’s finest underdogs.

Great Grandpa’s Try-Hard Snack Rock

Music

Great Grandpa’s Try-Hard Snack Rock

They may sing about getting stoned and eating Cheetos, but the members of Great Grandpa are anything but…

Neon Saltwater’s virtual rooms will become reality in her new gallery show, Unvirtual.

Arts & Culture

Unvirtual Reality, Shakespeare in the Park, and More of the Week’s Best Events

The week’s best events.

BAD BOY COMIX: Boys in Parked Cars

Comix

BAD BOY COMIX: Boys in Parked Cars

A very sensitive, tender parking lot.

Illustration by Taylor Dow

Arts & Culture

Stay, Leave, or Change!

A Capricorn full moon says, “Get real!”