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Music • They Might Be Giants After 33 years together, TMBG remains
Published 7:35am Tuesday, May 5, 2015Music • They Might Be Giants After 33 years together, TMBG remains a quintessential cult band that never made it big (and perhaps never sought ... Read more
Stage Can Can Cabarets Seattle’s center for neo-burlesque presents shows and/or live
Published 7:35am Tuesday, May 5, 2015Stage Can Can Cabarets Seattle’s center for neo-burlesque presents shows and/or live music nearly every night; see thecancan.com for full details and ticket prices. Can ... Read more
Classical • Ariadne auf Naxos For all its frivolity and ebullience-which is
Published 7:35am Tuesday, May 5, 2015Classical • Ariadne auf Naxos For all its frivolity and ebullience-which is the aspect of Richard Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos that Seattle Opera is selling ... Read more
Dance Girl Gods A work-in progress preview of Pat Graney’s new show
Published 7:35am Tuesday, May 5, 2015Dance Girl Gods A work-in progress preview of Pat Graney’s new show (to be premiered in October at On the Boards) which “explores the ancestry ... Read more
Visual Arts Finland: Designed Environments Humanist philosophy and minimalist aesthetics come together
Published 7:35am Tuesday, May 5, 2015Visual Arts Finland: Designed Environments Humanist philosophy and minimalist aesthetics come together in Finnish design. Nordic Heritage Museum, 3014 N.W. 67th St., Seattle, WA 98117 ... Read more
Film • STIFF The acronym for the newly renamed and broadened Seattle
Published 7:35am Tuesday, May 5, 2015Film • STIFF The acronym for the newly renamed and broadened Seattle Transmedia and Independent Film Festival was always a cheeky bit of misdirection, since ... Read more
Food & Drink Seattle Tilth May Edible Plant Sale Come to Seattle
Published 7:34am Tuesday, May 5, 2015Food & Drink Seattle Tilth May Edible Plant Sale Come to Seattle Tilth’s May Edible Plant Sale to stock-up on plants and supplies to grow ... Read more
Books Seattle Poetry Slam Local poets share their verse and spoken word
Published 7:34am Tuesday, May 5, 2015Books Seattle Poetry Slam Local poets share their verse and spoken word compositions. 21 and over. Rebar, 1114 Howell StreetSeattle, WA $5 Tuesday, May 5, ... Read more
Completely reliant on the warmth and goodwill generated by its stars (rather
Published 5:03am Tuesday, May 5, 2015Completely reliant on the warmth and goodwill generated by its stars (rather than, say, its writing), this AARP-oriented dramedy strikes all the familiar chords. Retired ... Read more
Nobody goes to a romantic comedy looking for surprises. We go for
Published 5:00am Tuesday, May 5, 2015Nobody goes to a romantic comedy looking for surprises. We go for affirmation that, in the face of suspicious data, dubious reasoning, endless distractions, and ... Read more
Openings & Events Fred Birchman and Carolyn Krieg Birchman focuses on
Published 3:46am Tuesday, May 5, 2015Openings & Events Fred Birchman and Carolyn Krieg Birchman focuses on architecture and landscape in Reclamation Projects. Krieg shows equine photos in Horses. Opening reception, ... Read more
Openings & Events • Capitol Hill Art Walk Along with the
Published 3:46am Tuesday, May 5, 2015Openings & Events • Capitol Hill Art Walk Along with the typical players, of note are a show by Japanese pop-art painter Yumiko Kayukawa at ... Read more
Seattle Councilmember Mike O’Brien’s head floats atop Elliott Bay like a beach
Published 10:50pm Monday, May 4, 2015Seattle Councilmember Mike O’Brien’s head floats atop Elliott Bay like a beach ball. The rest of his body is submerged in the 50 degree water, ... Read more
“Ambassadors of their own cultural music” is how composer/trumpeter Samantha Boshnack describes
Published 10:30pm Monday, May 4, 2015“Ambassadors of their own cultural music” is how composer/trumpeter Samantha Boshnack describes the diverse musicians she’s spotlighting on the next concert of her 14-piece new-music/improv ... Read more
Seattle Councilmember Mike O’Brien’s head floats atop Elliott Bay like a beach
Published 9:11pm Monday, May 4, 2015Seattle Councilmember Mike O’Brien’s head floats atop Elliott Bay like a beach ball. The rest of his body is submerged in the 50-degree water, a ... Read more
The most recent Pew Research Center poll shows that a majority of
Published 9:06pm Monday, May 4, 2015The most recent Pew Research Center poll shows that a majority of Americans nationwide, 53 percent, now support the legalization of cannabis. I’m actually surprised ... Read more
Last week, King County Executive Dow Constantine unveiled an ambitious new plan
Published 7:01pm Monday, May 4, 2015Last week, King County Executive Dow Constantine unveiled an ambitious new plan to improve early development among all King County children—a $65 million levy called ... Read more
Reuniting a band after a decade-long hiatus is dangerous territory. The list
Published 5:42pm Monday, May 4, 2015Reuniting a band after a decade-long hiatus is dangerous territory. The list of formerly critically acclaimed bands that returned as flaccid versions of their prior ... Read more
Hayden Mears’ time is up in the glass-walled conference room he has
Published 5:41pm Monday, May 4, 2015Hayden Mears’ time is up in the glass-walled conference room he has booked for an hour in the frenzied hub of entrepreneurial activity that is ... Read more
Karluk Manor caters to the desperate and downtrodden on the periphery of
Published 4:37pm Monday, May 4, 2015Karluk Manor caters to the desperate and downtrodden on the periphery of downtown Anchorage—about a mile away from the famed Captain Cook Hotel, where, until ... Read more