Arts & Culture

The Weekend Starts... Now

The Top Things to Do This Weekend: November 13–16

Jen Wood and Smokey Brights play album release concerts, Short Run celebrates tiny lit and comics, and standup Todd Barry gets deadpan in Tacoma.

11/13/2014 By Seattle Met Staff

The Sporting Life

The Six Best Moments in King Felix’s Amazing Year

The Cy Young Award winners will be announced later today. He better be one of them.

11/12/2014 By Matthew Halverson

Local Talent

A Fiendish Conversation with Tacoma Art Museum's Laura Fry

The Curator of Western American Art discusses the impact of TAM's new Haub Family Galleries expansion.

11/11/2014 By Seth Sommerfeld

Flying Fish

Someone in Bellevue Made a Salmon Cannon

And John Oliver had fun with it the other night.

11/11/2014 By Matthew Halverson

Comedy

Tig Notaro Performed Topless a Week Before Her Seattle Show

The low-key standup and cancer survivor caused a buzz at the New York Comedy Festival.

11/10/2014 By Seth Sommerfeld

Bang for Your Buck

Cheap Week Seattle: November 10–16

An indie comics festival, the Postal Service on the big screen, and a concert at St. Mark's Cathedral: the best ways to spend your week without spending much.

11/10/2014 By Seth Sommerfeld and Darren Davis

The Weekend Starts... Now

The Top Things to Do This Weekend: November 6–9

Oprah brings her motivational tour to town, PNB showcases its diversity with Director's Choice, and Tony Bennett's still crooning.

11/06/2014 By Seattle Met Staff

Local Talent

A Fiendish Conversation with Seattle International Comedy Competition's Ron Reid

As SICC enters it's 35th year, the event's producer discusses selections, past winner Mitch Hedberg, and more.

11/05/2014 By Seth Sommerfeld

Amanda Knox

You'll Never Guess Where Amanda Knox is Working Now

Here's a hint: Rather than make news, she's writing it.

11/04/2014 By Matthew Halverson

Music News

Death at FreakNight and EDM's Drug Problem

Trying to make sense of another dance festival fatality and what can be done to prevent more.

11/04/2014 By Seth Sommerfeld

Grunge Lives

Listen to a Pre-Nirvana Mixtape from Kurt Cobain

It's weird, you guys.

11/03/2014 By Matthew Halverson

Bang for Your Buck

Cheap Week Seattle: November 3–9

Irish lit, a variety show with Prometheus Brown, and a mandolin orchestra: the best ways to spend your week without spending much.

11/03/2014 By Darren Davis

Music Marathon

Tomo Nakayama Plays 14 Free Concerts Tomorrow

The Grand Hallway frontman jets around Seattle to support his new solo album Fog on the Lens.

11/03/2014 By Seth Sommerfeld

Mudroom

Perfect Party November 2014

Here’s who we’d invite if we could entertain this month’s most interesting visitors, locals, and newsmakers.

11/03/2014 By Seattle Met Staff

Met Picks

The Top Things to See or Do in Seattle: November 2014

Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre visits with ‘King Lear,’ poet Matthea Harvey reads at Chihuly Garden and Glass, and more of the month’s best bets.

11/03/2014 By Seth Sommerfeld

Rainmakers

Halo Launches Live Action Series

When a billion-dollar video game goes live-action, it’s important to get the details right.

11/03/2014 By Allison Williams

Passing Through

Tig Notaro, Still Standing

Tig Notaro joked her way through cancer and lived to tell about it.

11/03/2014 By Seth Sommerfeld

Seattle Sound

Album of the Month: FF's 'Lord'

The Seattle punk trio makes beautifully vintage noise on its debut LP.

10/31/2014 By Seth Sommerfeld

Film

The Reviews Are in for Lynn Shelton's 'Laggies'

And they're ... sort of positive?

10/31/2014 By Matthew Halverson