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Music Festival

Mapping Out City Arts Fest 2012

It's all about knowing where to go (literally).

10/16/2012 By Seth Sommerfeld

Critic's Notebook

What Really Happens When 'Women Take Over'

There's a bit of "Genital Panic" in the all-female art exhibit Elles at Seattle Art Museum.

10/16/2012 By Sheila Farr

Music News

Seattle Symphony, Opera Musicians Give Strike Authorization

The musicians union will meet again today to discuss a projected 15 percent cut in compensation.

10/16/2012 By Laura Dannen

Fall Arts Preview

Demons Spit Rhymes in Tommy Smith's New Play

The playwright mixes Japanese folk tales with hip-hop in Demon Dreams.

10/15/2012 By Laura Dannen

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The Top Things to See or Do in November

Death Cab’s Ben Gibbard rolls solo and puppets get saucy in Avenue Q.

10/12/2012 By Laura Dannen

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Affordable Art Fair Arrives in Seattle

Fifty galleries will sell their wares at Seattle Center’s Exhibition Hall, with prices ranging from $100 to $10,000. Trust funds not required.

10/12/2012 By Laura Dannen

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100 Years of Movies

As Universal Pictures celebrates its centennial, watch The Birds, Jaws, The Sting, and more at Northwest Film Forum.

10/12/2012 By Laura Dannen

The Weekend Starts....Now.

The Top 13 Things To Do This Weekend: Oct 11–14

The witches of 'Wicked' bring their magic back to the stage; Bob Dylan plays KeyArena; and the Elles exhibit opens at SAM.

10/11/2012 By Seattle Met Staff

Concert

When Orchestras and Rock Collide

Folk-rocker Kris Orlowski and composer-violinist Andrew Joslyn celebrate the release of their new EP—with the help of a 17-piece orchestra.

10/11/2012 By Duke Sullivan

Concerts

Ticket Alert: Shabazz Palaces and THEESatisfaction, Deck the Hall Ball

Plan now for these sure-to-sell-out shows.

10/10/2012 By Seattle Met Staff

Visual Art

SAM's New Contemporary Art Curator Is Doing Some Impressive Work

Catharina Manchanda shows wit and a fine-tuned aesthetic in her first exhibits at the Seattle Art Museum.

10/10/2012 By Sheila Farr

Local Talent

A Fiendish Conversation with Ryan Lewis

More than just Macklemore's producer, do-everything-man Lewis talks about building a hip-hop empire.

10/09/2012 By Seth Sommerfeld

Concerts

'Searching for Sugar Man' in Seattle

Experience the mystery of a lost '70s music legend.

10/09/2012 By Seth Sommerfeld

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Ellen Forney’s ‘Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me: A Graphic Memoir’

The Seattle cartoonist takes readers on a journey through her own unquiet mind.

10/08/2012 By Brian Colella

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Perfect Party

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

10/08/2012 By Allison Williams

Fall Arts Preview

Elles at SAM: "This Isn't a Feminist Exhibition"

Seattle Art Museum shows a century's worth of modern and contemporary art by women in its ambitious new exhibit, on loan from the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

10/08/2012 By Laura Dannen

Visual Art

Would You Buy Fine Art from Costco?

The wholesaler is back in the affordable art business with Warhol screen prints and Matisse lithographs.

10/05/2012 By Laura Dannen

The Weekend Starts....Now.

The Top 10 Things To Do This Weekend: Oct 4–7

Grizzly Bear brings Brooklyn indie rock to the people; Alanis Morissette likes Havoc and Bright Lights; and dance legends abound.

10/04/2012 By Seattle Met Staff

Music Festival

A Roadmap to Reverb Festival

Ballard hosts more than 50 bands from around Seattle for one low price this Saturday.

10/04/2012 By Seth Sommerfeld

Books & Talks

Q&A: Colin Meloy of the Decemberists

The folk-rock front man talks about his second career as a children's book author.

10/03/2012 By Laura Dannen

Seattle Met

Arts & Culture

Mapping Out City Arts Fest 2012

What Really Happens When 'Women Take Over'

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Demons Spit Rhymes in Tommy Smith's New Play

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Affordable Art Fair Arrives in Seattle

100 Years of Movies

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When Orchestras and Rock Collide

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