Arts & Entertainment Articles
An Interview with Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize–Winning Author of A Visit From the Goon Squad
By Laura Dannen
The Perfect Party
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Spring Arts 2012: Then and Now
The lasting cultural legacy of the 1962 World’s Fair was the city’s new civic hub, Seattle Center, home to world-class opera, ballet, theater, art—and a visit from King Tut—then, and now.
By Laura Dannen
Seattle Center House Recycled
In time for the 50th anniversary of the World's Fair, Graham Baba Architects turns the old armory into a house of light.
By David Laskin
The Seattle World’s Fair in 2012
In 1962, Seattle introduced the world to the Space Needle and Belgian waffles. We asked Seattle experts to imagine a 2012 version.
1962 World's Fair 50th Anniversary
Fifty years ago, the 1962 World’s Fair did more than just celebrate global culture. It put Seattle on display, inspired world leaders, and erected a certain needle-shaped tower. A look at the 184 days that changed Seattle—and the world—forever.
A Tuskegee Airman Goes to the Movies
Hollywood will tell the story of the Tuskegee Airmen this month. George Hickman knows more than the plot.
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U.S. Debut for Lebanese Performance Artist Rabih Mroué
Lebanese performance artist Rabih Mroué leads a creative rebellion in his U.S. debut.
By Laura Dannen
Bushwick Book Club Sets Hunter S. Thompson to Music
An unusual book club creates songs of fear and loathing for the concert hall.
By Laura Dannen
Best Things to See and Do in Winter in Seattle
Don’t hibernate. There are hot toddies, Russian spas, and skating rinks worth braving the cold.
How Redbox Could Take Down Netflix
Netflix is on the ropes. Can Bellevue’s Redbox land a knockout blow?
Steve Jobs and the Sins of His Father
Thirty-seven years ago Steve Jobs’s biological father led a group of college students into Egypt. Then he vanished. A forgotten Tacoma crime story.
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Ski Movie Mogul Warren Miller Refuses to Go Downhill
Warren Miller inspired legions of skiers with his goofy, self-narrated ski-bum films. After the sale of his company—and a lawsuit—Miller agreed to never appear in, narrate, or direct another ski film. But now, nearing 90, he refuses to go downhill.
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The Redemption of Ryan Leaf Will Be Televised
And blogged about. And chronicled in newspapers. Once upon a time the WSU football phenom had the world at his feet. Now, after a very public addiction to prescription painkillers, he’s ready to talk. And talk. And talk.
The Bootlegger’s Right-Hand Man
Upcoming PBS documentary turns the lens on a Kirklander whose rum-running father never forgot his strangely scrupulous boss.
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Seattle Wonder Women Launch GeekGirlCon
Seattle comics lovers and fantasy fans unite for the first-ever GeekGirlCon.
By Lisa Han
A Grunge Guru’s Reading List
On the 20th anniversary of Nirvana’s Nevermind, a Seattle music writer sizes up a bookshelf’s worth of grunge histories.
By Gillian Gaar
The Strangest Tribe: How a Group of Seattle Rock Bands Invented Grunge
In an exclusive excerpt from Stephen Tow’s Seattle music history The Strangest Tribe, the author shows how the U-Men bridged the path from punk to grunge.
By Stephen Tow
Fall Arts Preview
New spaces, fresh faces.
By Laura Dannen, Adriana Grant, Lisa Han, and Allison Williams
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Insider's Guide to Olympic National Park: Poet of the Park
Tim McNulty serves as unofficial poet laureate of the Olympics.
Insider's Guide to Olympic National Park: Art of the Park
Every medium presents the peninsula through a different lens.
The Real Housewives of...Seattle?
Examining the odds that Bravo's infamous series will wind up in our neck of the woods.
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Hackers Develop Disaster Response Video Games
Can you survive an earthquake? How about a virtual one?
Seattle Summer Events Guide: August Calendar
A day-by-day guide to outdoor pleasures all summer long.
By Laura Dannen
Seattle Summer Events Guide: July Calendar
A day-by-day guide to outdoor pleasures all summer long.
By Laura Dannen
Seattle Summer Events Guide
Movies under the stars! Concerts on the grass! Freebie family fun!
Edited by Laura Dannen
Vicci Martinez Rocks The Voice
Spunky local rocker Vicci Martinez gets her TV moment.
By Laura Dannen
Seattle Summer Events Guide: Summer Fun Finder
A day-by-day guide to outdoor pleasures all summer long.
Edited by Laura Dannen
Capitol Hill Explosion
Have you been to Pike/Pine lately? The zesty corridor on Capitol Hill is home to (at least!): 35 new bars and restaurants, 17 new shops and one 15-year-old block party that just may be the best summer blowout in the nation.
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Mayor McGinn to Media: No House Calls, Please
It’s 10pm. Do you know where the mayor is? Should you?
Local's Guide to the Pike Place Market: Meet the Ghosts
Mercedes Yaeger, owner of Market Ghost Tours, introduces Pike Place’s most distinguished ghouls.
Local's Guide to the Pike Place Market: Pike Place Performers
Four entertainers who embody the weird and wonderful tradition of performing in the Market.
Publish or Perish the Thought
How to get your book from the recycling bin to the bookshelf.
By Laura Dannen
Let’s Start the Show
When a couple of college kids put on a show at UW, they set the stage to make Seattle a hip-hop hotbed.
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A King’s Ransom
Major League Baseball’s trade deadline is next month. Here’s why the Mariners should give up star pitcher Félix Hernández now.
Local's Guide to the Pike Place Market: Meet the Mayor
Pike Place through the eyes of Michael Yaeger, its honorary mayor.
By Katie Ormsby
Local’s Guide to the Pike Place Market
The Pike Place Market has 104 years of history, 240 stalls, shops, and restaurants, at least four ghosts, two pigs, countless hidden treasures, and more.
Edited by Jessica Voelker
North by Northwest
Finding the Seattle connection in five films at this year’s SIFF.
By Laura Dannen
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Rage Against the Machine
In a new monologue, Mike Daisey dissects his love-hate relationship with iPhones.
By Laura Dannen
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10 Must-See Masterpieces
A guided tour of top works of art in Seattle’s permanent collections.
By Noah Charney
Are You Going to Comicon?
The Washington State Convention Center hosts the ninth annual Emerald City Comicon, March 4–6. But don’t reach for the tights until you’ve taken our questionnaire.
The Last Ride of Cowboy James
King County Superior Court charging document against 74-year-old James Fogle (the inspiration for Drugstore Cowboy, starring Matt Dillon) for his botched 2010 heist in Redmond.
Spoiling for a Fight
The Ultimate Fighting Championship is selling out at KeyArena. Since when did we become a fisticuffs-loving city?
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Fantasy Frye-land
Oil paintings to the right, “whimsically disturbing” performance art to the left.
By Suzanne Beal
This Product Will Change Your Life
How a game, an actor, and a mentor-driven startup program helped alter Seattle tech entrepreneurship (and maybe celebrities) forever.
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God, Guts, and Sons
Ron Reagan, Magnolia resident and son of President Ronald Reagan, from his new memoir My Father at 100
Amazon Attacks!
The online retailer wants to produce your movie. Just be sure to read the fine print.
Fly Guy
Drew Barth, Bellevue resident and finalist in the 31st Seattle International Comedy Competition
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The Perfect Party
Here's who we'd invite if we could entertain this month's most interesting visitors, locals, and newsmakers.
The Facebook Comic
You don’t publish graphic novels—and allegedly not pay your artists—without making a few enemies.
Desk Jockeying
Fact: Outside The Office, Rainn Wilson and Craig Robinson refuse to fight.
By Laura Dannen
Lover Boy
Philip Seymour Hoffman takes on two new roles: romantic lead and film director.
By Laura Dannen
Northwest Exposure
Chase Jarvis made a career with images of fast people in far-flung places. Then he pointed his camera at his hometown.
Laughing Matter
Two of the top local contenders in this year’s Seattle International Comedy Competition get sassy.
Edited by Laura Dannen
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’Scuse Me While I Sue This Guy
Forty years after Jimi Hendrix’s death, his estate is a frustrating litigious mess.
Back From the Dead
Washington’s battered film industry finds new energy, new talent, new funding, and some horrific inspiration from H. P. Lovecraft.
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Dead and Loving It
What has rotting flesh, eats human brains, and is shuffling into Seattle for a new convention?
By Tiffany Wan
The Man Who Loved Seattle Too Much
Grant Cogswell found hope in Seattle’s possibilities. He tried to give the city a monorail and a civic vision, but he discovered that happy endings are only in movies.
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Turnover
3BA might be the next big thing in professional basketball: full-court, three-on-three hoops played at breakneck speed. But even the game’s back-and-forth action can’t compete with the off-the-court legal drama.
Budding Bromance
When they're not filming Grassroots, Jason Biggs and Joel David Moore are bonding over Bacardi.
Edited by Laura Dannen
Hold Your Tongue
Ethan Stowell, owner of Tavolàta, Anchovies & Olives, and How to Cook a Wolf, from his cookbook Ethan Stowell’s New Italian Kitchen, out September 21.
She’s the App for That
Real Weather Girls puts the forecast—and a Seattle hottie—in your hands.
By Douglas Bair
A Tasting Menu of Fall Arts
A sampler of outstanding selections from the coming cultural season, from soup to nuts.
Edited by Laura Dannen
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Gulp Fiction
Seattleite Molly Ringle's winning entry in the 2010 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest to write the worst first line of a novel.
Smells Like Green Spirit
Local music fests—new and old—aren't afraid to compost.
Edited by Laura Dannen
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Is That an App in Your Lap?
Mature content on mobile phones—two Seattleites have a knack for that.
By Jason Cohen
100 Reasons to Love Seattle
By Laura Cassidy, Tiffany Wan, Jessica Voelker, Eric Scigliano, Kathryn Robinson, Judy Naegeli, Caitlin King, Matthew Halverson, James Ross Gardner, Laura Dannen, and Christopher Werner
The President’s Analyst
David Remnick talks about Muhammed Ali and Obama, the Clintons and the Tea Baggers, how he managed to write The Bridge, his acclaimed new biography of Barack Obama, while editing The New Yorker, and how he can hear every writer’s voice except his own.
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Mayor of Cirque City
Former PNB dancer Adam Miller runs away with the circus.
Edited by Laura Dannen
Baby Got Broke
Washington Mutual Execs who sang the ditty to Sir Mix-a-Lot's "Baby Got Back" during a company retreat in Hawaii in 2006. The lyrics were unveiled in April 2010 during a senate hearing on the collapse of the Seattle-based bank.
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Risky Business
Bolstered by new leadership, Seattle Art Museum is in the mood for a fresh coat of paint.
Edited by Laura Dannen
¡Viva la Seattle!
A survey of what Mexican Americans have given Seattle—besides great Cinco de Mayo parties.
By Tiffany Wan
Brother, Can You Spare a Joke?
Garrison Keillor, during a live broadcast at the Paramount Theatre of his public radio program A Prairie Home Companion, April 3, 2010.
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Homer Alone
Hans Altwies treads softly into his first solo show—an adaptation of The Iliad.
Edited by Laura Dannen
Just a Song Before I Go
Graham Nash keeps on keeping on with a photography exhibit at EMP and a new album with Crosby and Stills.
Edited by Laura Dannen
Sounders ’Til We Die
What to yell, where to watch, and everything else you need to know to be an expert soccer fan.
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The Perfect Party
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The New Faces of Seattle Arts
The spring arts calendar fills up with artists who break new ground in Seattle.
Edited by Laura Dannen
From Prince to King?
PNB principal Olivier Wevers debuts his own dance supergroup, Whim W’Him.
By Jean Lenihan
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I Spy
Watch these video samples from movies filmed in our hometown and see if you can spot the locations.
Nerd for Life
Rainn Wilson, star of NBC’s The Office, speaking to students at the University of Washington
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The Movie Seattle Saved
Thirty years ago, The Stunt Man was gathering dust in a vault. Its producers hated it and no studio would touch it. Then Seattle audiences made it the star of one of Hollywood’s greatest underdog stories.
Will Work for Quote
Tim Burgess wants to curb pushy panhandlers—but doesn't want to comment.
By Karen Quinn
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26 Perfect Saturdays
We've planned out a year's worth of memorable days—urban explorations, out-of-bounds adventures, and relaxed, cultural happenings of the very Seattle kind.
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Born Again
Seattle musician David Bazan breaks with his evangelical past on Curse Your Branches.
By Nick Feldman
A Question For...
Andrew Connor, of the Cody Rivers Show and artistic director of SketchFest Seattle Comedy Festival, reveals the magic behind his comical stage genius.
Mr. President
Dennis Haysbert remains diplomatic about the movie he’s making in Seattle with Tobey Maguire.
Such Sweet Sorrow
Pacific Northwest Ballet's Lucien Postlewaite shares why he loved taking the lead in Roméo et Juliette.
August Arts
31 days, 31 things to do: Concerts, parties, plays, art shows, sports, and fairs for every day of the month.
By Nick Feldman
Ring Leader
Conductor Robert Spano returns for another workout with Wagner’s Ring Cycle.
By Thomas May
Con Song
Tony winner Scott Wittman talks fast about turning a Hollywood hit into tune-filled theater.
Vince Mira Won't Walk the Line
Billed as the Second Coming of Johnny Cash, a teenager from Federal Way wowed rock stars, morning news shows, Ellen DeGeneres, and the Cash estate. There’s just one problem: Vince Mira is done parroting the Man in Black.
A Chat with Francis Ford Coppola
The esteemed director talks about his favorite Godfather scene and the hazards of bringing a personal piece to cinematic life.
The Sundance Kid
Local director Lynn Shelton outgunned the doubters at Robert Redford’s film festival. Now she’s aiming at her hometown.
Four Questions For... Jan Fabre
Belgian maverick Jan Fabre discusses his revolutionary career in the arts.
The Not-So-Final Frontier
A Seattleite wrote the Star Trek backstory. Will the new movie ruin her universe?
String Theory
Classical cellist Joshua Roman expands his musical universe with Radiohead, world travel, and an unshakeable belief in his own potential.
This Just In
The newest ways to eat, shop, and play on the growing, changing, morphing Eastside.
By Megan Clark, Kathryn Robinson, and Steve Wiecking
The 2009 Quotable Spring Arts Guide
We spotlight this season's bright stars. And they had something to say about it.
By Steve Wiecking and Christopher Werner
Poet of the Port Town
Just before ”Howl” made him famous, Allen Ginsberg savored old Seattle’s seaport rot.
Sounds Like Teen Spirit
A Northwest girls’ camp strikes a chord with two documentary filmmakers.
By Wilson Diehl
Listen to this man—Or we kill a puppy
Dr. Demento’s reign of syndicated radio terror started in Seattle.
This is SUB POP
The rise and fall and rise of the record label that that redefined itself for a new generation.
Man of Many Acts
Bumbershoot booker Chris Porter tries to catch the trends, keep it Reel, and always have a backup when Devo bails for China.
"I Shall Call It Cletus"
A hardcore videogamer plays God in the virtual world of Spore, where omnipotence is the mission and survival is for the fit.
By Emily White
American Idolatry
With his mile-wide smile, unreliable voice, and parade of hairdos, Sanjaya Malakar became a star—and a pop culture punch line—on American Idol.
By Emily White
50 Most Influential Musicians
Rock guitarists, jazz singers, folk pioneers, world-class cellists and more—these are the people who changed the sound of our lives.
Edited by Steve Wiecking
In a Meinert Key
Rock promoter, hip-hop impresario, political powerhouse—activist and entrepreneur David Meinert has shaped Seattle’s music scene.
By Michael Hood
