Chef Ethan Stowell's next fundraising dinner benefits Seattle Children’s; diners nosh on four courses, hear from the chef himself, and sip wines paired by vintners at Mark Ryan Winery. Save room: the menu finishes with a goat yogurt panna cotta.

West Seattle diversifies the post-work happy hour with their fall event; tickets score fourteen tastes from local boutique wineries. With tasting stations spread throughout the neighborhood's stores, the evening holds equal doses of sipping and shopping.

Superfans are called to supper at MOPOP's newest dinner series, each meal themed to a different fandom. Next up: a Middle-earth meal with large doses of hobbit hospitality; expect a feast fit for Frodo with swords, songs, and long roads of adventure.

The sleek, always-free art museum houses sculptor and multimedia artist Hugh Hayden’s first solo museum spot on the West Coast. Filling the galleries are curiously reworked items from everyday American life, like the cherry bark encased Louboutins and a life-sized church nave.

Fresh art drops at the National Nordic Museum, courtesy of multidisciplinary artist Nina Katchadourian. Her works range from photographs, to video, to an immersive installation surrounding a real-life shipwreck disaster. On June 22, Katchadourian will join a survivor of the shipwreck, Douglas Robertson, in conversation at the gallery. 

Go ahead, interact with the art in Anila Quayyum Agha's new exhibition at the Volunteer Park museum, the first solo show from a Pakistani American artist in SAM’s 90-years. Laser-cut steel cubes suspend from the ceiling, lit by a halogen bulb that paints the room—and visitors—with intricate shadows that illuminate the light and dark of life. 

The thoroughfare from Pioneer Square to Belltown becomes a marathon route, but don't break out the sneakers just yet. The new art-walk-like event transforms the city's sidewalks, storefronts, and public squares into canvases for visual installations, stages for pop-up performances, and invitations to interact with fresh art. 

Spanning Seattle to Portland, annual Black and Loud Fest books out the whole Crocodile building with Black-fronted bands. Living Colour, King Youngblood, and Cyril Neville play alongside a cohort of up-and-coming talent. 

Attention all Jonatics...the early 2000s are calling. Joe, Nick, and Kevin bring a tour filled with career-spanning hits to Climate Pledge, pairing Camp Rock nostalgia with contemporary solo hits. 

Pike Place Market's burlesque dinner theater puts on a summer show full of big hair, big ballads, and big rhinestone energy. While the jukebox-dance musical is mostly adults-only, two matinee shows August 3 and 10 open the doors for all ages to sing along. 

The show must go on...but should it? A meta physical comedy about a play that—you guessed it—goes all wrong, Seattle Rep’s season opener brings laughs at the expense of the fictional Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society and their problem-riddled show.

The historic Paramount Theatre becomes a Prohibition-era world of song and dance in the Tony and Grammy Award-winning Broadway musical. Our protagonists are chased by gangsters and dazzled by love interests yet manage to fox trot through it all. 

Buckle in: SIFF is going on a journey of cinematic endurance, screening the entire Star Wars universe as two weekend-long marathons. The first weekend will run the intergalactic saga in chronological order; the second in order of their original release. 

Ballard's independent theatre highlights throwbacks this summer, screening nostalgia-filled faves chosen by audiences. Next up is Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind. 

Dan Savage's bi-annual film fest spreads the gospel of sex-positivity with homemade kinky shorts showing at three Seattle venues this fall. Not sure what to expect? He once told us, "Anything comes and goes at HUMP!, literally.”

Capitol Hill's Northwest Film Forum curates films—both shorts and features—from local PNW filmmakers. The fest kicks off with a meet-and-greet brunch and closes out this year's run with a series of shorts alongside a vendor market, trivia, and mingling with cast and crew. 

Has your morning coffee routine gone stale? Woodland Park Zoo's brunch club allows visitors to sip that latte while watching sloth bears, Asian small-clawed otters, and Malayan tigers greet the morning. French toast shooters, avocado smoked salmon toast, and veggie quiche fuel a day of zoo-going ahead. 

Sure, an Oktoberfest is going to be mostly about the beer. But Fremont boasts more than full steins with a bratwurst eating contest, awards for Sunday's best-dressed dog, an outdoor dance floor helmed by a DJ, and a towering carnival-style slide. 

The wide-ranging month-long fest curated by the Consulate of Mexico in Seattle weaves together Hispanic and Mexican-American cultural events in countless forms: art exhibitions, concerts, Spanish language spoken word poetry, and mural painting. 

Documentary Democracy Noir, chronicling the advocacy of three Hungarian women against a corrupt white nationalist regime, screens at the independent film house. On opening night, director Connie Field sits for a Q&A following both showtimes. 

Your professor is Brad Thomas Parsons, author of an entire book on amaro; your class materials include Fast Penny Spirits paired with gnocchi and cannoli. The evening masterclass imparts Italian cocktail know-how through hands-on mixing and tasting. 

Yeah, what is queer food? Culinary writer John Birdsall has the answer in his newest book: it's the intentions, the people, and the circumstances that make anything from salad to cake to a full-blown potluck spread distinctively queer.