The best kissing music is either sweaty, loud rock ’n’ roll or a subtle, sexy soundtrack you can just put…
If the Pacific Northwest manifested itself as a human being, it would likely assume the form of Phil Elverum. Under…
When the Columbia City Cinema closed a couple of years ago due to problems meeting city code, its regulars were…
Kris Straub is known around town for his hilarious webcomic Chainsawsuit, but for Best of Seattle it’s all about his…
Fantagraphics recently suffered the loss of its co-publisher, Kim Thompson, to cancer. In a dark irony, the 37-year-old company has…
My favorite burlesque routine is one I saw performed some years ago by the lovely Lily Verlaine. “Wearing” nothing above…
Ana Montes manages to tear up the floor whenever she appears with Carmona Flamenco, but the best way to see…
As a self-described “tall girl” in a dance form usually filled with petite women, Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Laura (Gilbreath) Tisserand…
When he’s in Seattle, he’s usually working with his own Whim W’him ensemble, but Olivier Wevers has been just as…
Cara-Mae Marcus joined Spectrum Dance Theater this year, just in time to serve as the pivot point for artistic director…
Pacific Northwest Ballet has performed several works by choreographer Twyla Tharp, and this spring that relationship extended to their professional-division…
August: Osage County opens like a homespun yarn, but by the dramedy’s conclusion, playwright Tracy Letts has earned not only…
Over the course of the past few seasons at Washington Ensemble Theatre, Hannah Victoria Franklin has portrayed a bow-lipped robot…
Outside the city, new multiplexes rise amid seas of concrete, preferably located near a freeway off-ramp. But in congested Seattle,…
Locally raised and trained at the UW, Eirik Johnson recently returned home from Boston to teach photography at Cornish and…
Unlike many sterile art spaces, Hard L is an inviting place. It was created with safety in mind—an arts refuge…
I fully expect that by Best of Seattle2014, SAM’s Kimerly Rorschach will have announced plans to modernize the old Seattle…
Did you know the First Thursday Art Walk is over 30 years old? And that it bills itself as the…
We’re going to cheat a little on this category, having so recently praised Seattle Storefronts and King County’s 4Culture. The…
Of the novelties and surprises of Ludovic Morlot’s tenure as the Seattle Symphony’s new music director, none have been as…
