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The Must List: A Flight Back to 1962, Great Outdoor Gear and Muppets Galore
MUST WATCHDon your tutu, develop a deranged doppelgänger and sprout unwanted epidermal plumage—the famous “Black Swan” dance from Swan Lake is taking flight, along with several other besotted ballet masterpieces, in Love Stories at Pacific Northwest Ballet. Read the rest of our preview from the November issue.11/4–11/13. Times and prices vary. McCaw Hall, 321 Mercer…
Viaduct for Dummies: When Will the Rest of That Thing Come Down?
Today’s VFD update: A response to the random question from the back seat this morning as we weasled our way onto the Viaduct in SoDo. “I thought the Viaduct was coming down. So why are we still getting on it?” Listen, Billy, it ain’t that simple. Rebuilding Seattle’s north-south access via SR 99 is going…
Best of: Readers’ Choice 2011
Seattleites have spoken. Here are the Reader's Choice winners in our Best of 2011 poll.
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Saying Farewell to 37 Notable Seattleites
We remember shuttered arts oganizations, retired Seattleites, and big a final adieu to notable frien
It’s been a bit brutal of late for arts organizations around here. The past year has seen the shuttering of several beloved groups, including Giant Magnet children’s festival and the Bellevue Philharmonic Orchestra. After 26 seasons, the Seattle Symphony bid farewell to music director Gerard Schwarz and to composer-in-residence Samuel Jones, and Pacific Northwest Ballet…
Homemade in Seattle: A Book of Wonders
If you already have tickets to SAM Remix, you can get a FREE copy (1 of 50 limited editions) of a beautiful hand-bound, two-sided book fresh “off the presses” from Folio 2011. The book represents a lovely-sounding combination (I haven’t gotten my copy yet) of several “homemade” works by local artists, including musings and graphics…
More Things to Do This Halloween Weekend
Trick-or-treating? We’ve got you covered. Want to stay in a watch a good scary movie? Double check. Have an awesome costume and want to find something better than your typical, stand-around-until-the-punch-dries-up sorta party? Voila: HalloQueen — tenth anniversary performance by the local Queen tribute band led by Chris and Rick Friel, sons of legendary auctioneers…
Best Scary Movies to Watch on Halloween
In case the weekend shut-ins among us need a little help rounding off the perfect horror movie marathon. (Watch at your own discretion – we can’t be responsible for any “accidents.”) Listed in no particular order: The FlyYou will never look at Jeff Goldblum the same way again. Night of the Living Dead (1968)The zombie…
UPDATE: Viaduct for Dummies: Viaduct to Reopen Saturday, Ahead of Schedule
Word just in that the WSDOT will reopen the Alaska Way Viaduct on Saturday morning, two days ahead of schedule. The SoDo southbound offramp will reopen on Monday. Though north-south travel along the waterfront will once again be possible, it might be so annoyingly slow that some of us will revert to our Viaduct-pocolypse workarounds….
Who Were Those Liquor-Loving Ladies? LUPEC, That’s Who
As Ken Burns recently illuminated for us, women were at the forefront of the two most significant developments in our country’s history of drinking: the enactment of Prohibition, and then its repeal. And when ladies’ thirst roared in with the ’20s, it wasn’t pink cosmos they were drinking. Around Seattle for the last year or…
The Must List: Remember Rin Tin Tin, Eat Pasta, and Scream as Loud as You Can
MUST SCREAMHorror Film Exhibit at EMPRest up your vocal cords—EMP’s new exhibit Can’t Look Away: The Lure of Horror Film explores the human fascination with scary movies. Indulge in classic film screenings (such as Nosferatu, Bride of Frankenstein and The Exorcist), iconic artifacts (the axe from The Shining and Freddy Krueger’s original glove) and the…
What’s in Store for the Seattle Waterfront? Get a Peek at Designs Thursday Night
With the Viaduct lying in ruins around our ankles, seems a good time for a look ahead. Want to get a peek at what’s cooking for the shiny new, re-imagined Seattle waterfront? There’s a cool public event tonight, from 5-9 p.m. at Bell Harbor Conference Center on Pier 66. You’ll see a presentation of design…