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Must List: Seattle Pride Celebrations, Arts in Nature Festival, Negroni Week
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Love the Must List? Get it right in your inbox. Subscribe. MUST LOVE ALL Pride Parade and Seattle Center PrideFest (6/30) The 45th annual Seattle Pride Parade is just around the corner and everyone is invited. The parade will move along Fourth Avenue, displaying plenty of color and support for our city’s LGBTQ community. Banners, posters and…
Must List: ‘West Side Story,’ Solstice Parade, Make Music Seattle
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Love the Must List? Get it right in your inbox. Subscribe. MUST ATTEND West Side Story(Through 6/23) Sure, it’s based on Shakespeare, but as long as one tribe feels threatened by a more recently arrived tribe—and every single day brings more tragic evidence that they do—Leonard Bernstein’s masterpiece will never stop being as timely as a…
Must List: Ludovic Morlot’s Final Concerts, SoDo Crawl, Seattle International Dance Festival
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Love the Must List? Get it right in your inbox. Subscribe. MUST SAY FAREWELL Ludovic Morlot’s Final Concerts (Through 6/23) Morlot has conceived his two-weekend farewell to eight seasons as SSO music director as one big program, with music by Wagner, Debussy and Richard Strauss for June 13-15; then Wagner, Debussy and Leoš Janáček for June 20-23. As his last word before taking time off…
Must List: Sheepdog Classic, SIFF Closing-Night Gala, Furry 5K
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Love the Must List? Get it right in your inbox. Subscribe. MUST HERD Sheepdog Classic(6/6–6/9) Catch the ferry to Vashon Island for the 10th anniversary of this national sheepdog herding competition. Watch herding demonstrations, learn about dog behavior from specialists, shop for wares from Vashon’s local artisans, enjoy local food and more—this fest is as much…
Must List: 14/48: Nordo–Food Theater Thunderdome, Northwest Folklife, Emerald City Ride
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Love the Must List? Get it right in your inbox. Subscribe. MUST BE RANDOM 14/48: Nordo – Food Theater Thunderdome (5/23–25) The Worlds Quickest Theater Festival—brought to you by The 14/48 Project—takes on writing, casting, directing, rehearsing, scoring, designing and performing 14 plays in 48 hours. The plays and cast are selected by drawing names out of a hat. In the spirit…
Must List: SIFF, Norwegian Constitution Day, Beat the Bridge
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Love the Must List? Get it right in your inbox. Subscribe. MUST WATCH Seattle International Film Festival (5/16-6/9) Seattle’s International Film Festival (SIFF) returns for the 45th year featuring more than 400 films from more than 80 countries in just 25 days. Seattle-based filmmaker Lynn Shelton will open the festival Thursday with her latest feature Sword of Trust…
Must List: The Color Run, Drinking Your Chocolate, ‘Pop-Up Magazine’
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Love the Must List? Get it right in your inbox. Subscribe. MUST RUN The Color Run (5/12) Join Seattle’s most colorful 5K this Sunday and transform your boring white T-shirt into a rainbow. From start to finish, the Color Run always promises to be one big party with music and an historically upbeat crowd! This year’s run…
Must List: ‘Carmen,’ Crosscut Festival, Translations Seattle Transgender Film Festival
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Love the Must List? Get it right in your inbox. Subscribe. MUST SING Seattle Opera’s Carmen(5/4–5/19) It’s on the long side (three and a half hours), but otherwise Bizet’s earthy melodrama is the ideal opera for the novice. No matter how inexperienced you are, you probably already know at least three of the tunes, and the push-pull…
Must List: Brunch Run, National Park Week, ‘The Master and Margarita’
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Love the Must List? Get it right in your inbox. Subscribe. MUST LOVE BRUNCH Seattle Magazine’s Brunch Run (4/21) At the end of this 5K fun run along Lake Washington, reward yourself with bite-sized versions of your favorite breakfast foods (and cocktails!) from Seattle’s tastiest brunch spots. It’s the perfect combination of exercise and mimosas (or…
Must List: Ballard Brewed Spring Beer Festival, MoPop Pop Conference, Dance Day
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Love the Must List? Get it right in your inbox. Subscribe. MUST LOVE BEER Ballard Brewed Spring Beer Festival (4/13) April showers call for beer and the Ballard Spring Beer Festival has got you covered. In addition to the tried-and-true ales, keep your eyes peeled for 11 new releases from breweries including Bad Jimmy’s, Peddler and Stoup. Make sure to grab a slice…
Must List: Skagit Valley Tulip Festival, Beecher’s Cheese For All, ‘Urinetown’
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Love the Must List? Get it right in your inbox. Subscribe. MUST SMELL THE FLOWERS Skagit Valley Tulip Festival(4/1–4/30) Every year since the early 1900s, the fields of Skagit Valley bloom with tulips of all colors and varieties during the month of April. The gardens of RoozenGaarde and Tulip Town (both located in Mt Vernon off…