Music
Upstream, the Neoliberal Bumbershoot
Paul Allen’s new music festival was fun, but like the system that enables it, weird.
Music
Seattle’s Free Community-Based Festivals Are Wrestling With a Cash-Strapped Future
With mounting expenses, Folklife and Block Party at the Station wonder if they can go on.
Comix
Affordable Housing Now! (And Somewhere Else!)
When will someone do something (elsewhere) about this crisis!
Arts & Culture
Dakota Gearhart Dips Into the Love and Fear of Aquascapes
An exhibition about hypnotherapy and other water sports.
Film
King Arthur and the Bros of the Round Table
Guy Ritchie’s take on Camelot is a joyless medieval sausage fest.
Arts & Culture
‘Rising Up’ Blends Fact and Fiction in Hopes of Transformation
Ebo Barton and Sarah Rosenblatt’s queer social-justice play invited the cast to shape its story.
Arts & Culture
Local Writers Remember Joan Swift
Open Books will hold a memorial service to the late Northwest poetry legend.
Arts & Culture
Cirque du Soleil’s ‘Luzia’ Is a $47.7 Million Detriment to Mexican Artists
Meant to showcase Mexican culture to the world, ‘Luzia’ fails its premise from beginning to end.
Arts & Culture
The Top 15 Things to Do This Week
See Sisqo of “Thong Song” fame, relearn the meaning of “credible” in our post-fact era, and more.
Music
The Top Five New NW Acts You Need to See This Summer
If you’re making the festival rounds this season, don’t miss this fresh regional talent.
Music
The Complete Northwest Summer Music Fest Guide
Hydrate yourself before wading through these exhaustive, sizzling listings.
Music
Before You Upstream, Know Your Local Scenes
The 300-artist lineup is one of the most locally focused in the region—here’s who’s representing.
News
Ahoy! GIFs From the Opening of Seattle Boat Season
Stately seafairing vessels paraded down Montlake Cut for the occassion.
Film
‘A Quiet Passion’ Is as Enjoyably Eccentric as Emily Dickinson’s Poetry
What could’ve been a stuffy biopic turns into a fittingly odd ode to its unconventional subject.
Music
As Upstream Music Fest Approaches, Local Artists Turn Into Activists
A new coalition is petitioning Vulcan to commit to equitable development in the Central District.
Music
Ten Years of Debacle Fest, One Giant Pile of Goop
Comic artist Max Clotfelter walks us through a brief history of the region’s reigning weirdo music fest.
Arts & Culture
The Top 15 Things to Do This Week
See a Ned Flanders themed metal band, ponder what an automated future might look like, and much more.