Arts & Culture

Holiday Gift Guide

Holiday Gifting, Part Three: Six Ways to Volunteer

How and where you can give your time this season.

12/13/2011 By Allie Oosta

Film Fan Recap

Highlights from ‘An Evening with Gary Oldman’

Acting royalty comes to Seattle for a preview screening of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.

12/12/2011 By Laura Dannen

Gift Guide

Holiday Gifting, Part Two: Our Favorite Seattle Albums

Plus: recently released books for under the tree.

12/12/2011 By Seattle Met Staff

Concert

Bushwick Book Club Seattle Sets Hunter S. Thompson to Music

An unusual book club creates songs of fear and loathing for the concert hall.

12/09/2011 By Laura Dannen

The Weekend Starts...Now.

Met Picks: Florence and the Machine, An Evening with Gary Oldman, CookieFest

The top 10 things to see or do this weekend.

12/08/2011 By Seattle Met Staff

Holiday Gift Guide

Give the Gift of Coldplay

Tickets are the perfect size for a stocking—or for your pocket (we won’t tell!).

12/08/2011 By Allie Oosta

Film Q&A

Simpsons Writer Dana Gould Wants You to See Plan 9 from Outer Space at SIFF

"It’s incompetence aspiring to be greatness."

12/07/2011 By Matthew Halverson

Books & Talks

Annie Leibovitz Reads from Pilgrimage at Elliott Bay Book Co.

Her new book focuses on places, not faces.

12/07/2011 By Seattle Met Staff

Theater News

Seattle Now Has a Downtown Historic Theater District

Mayor McGinn just signed legislation to preserve five city theaters.

12/06/2011 By Laura Dannen

Books & Talks

TONIGHT: Nathan Myhrvold on How to Use a Centrifuge in the Kitchen

The coauthor of Modernist Cuisine mixes things up at Town Hall.

12/05/2011 By Seattle Met Staff

Theater

Holiday Bizarre: A Jewish Christmas! Now a New Musical

The wholly unholy Christmas parody Wisemen opens December 13.

12/05/2011 By Laura Dannen

The Weekend Starts...Now.

Met Picks: Blind Pilot, Mark Morris Dance Group, Great Figgy Pudding Street Corner Caroling Competition

The top 10 things to see or do this weekend.

12/01/2011 By Seattle Met Staff

Ticket Alert

Hear David Sedaris Read from His Diary at Benaroya Hall

Tickets are on sale now.

12/01/2011 By Allie Oosta

Music News

Woman Yells "Boring!" at Symphony Concert

Everyone’s a critic.

11/30/2011 By Allison Williams

Music Review

Laura Veirs Turns Kindie Rocker

Portland’s folk phenom shows off her new children’s album at the Vera Project.

11/30/2011 By Laura Dannen

Ticket Giveaway

Win Two Tickets to See Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter

Psychedlic folk rock? Hear it next Wednesday at Neumos.

11/30/2011 By Seattle Met Staff

Comedy

Seattle Son Nick Thune Returns for a Night of Comedy at Intiman

He grew out his facial hair for the occasion.

11/29/2011 By Matthew Halverson

Film Fest

Banff Mountain Film Festival Opens Wednesday in Seattle

It’s the best in snow stunts and jaw-dropping alpine shots.

11/29/2011 By Laura Dannen

Yay Consumerism

Cyber Monday Ticket Sales

Get concert, symphony, theater, and ballet tickets for a whole lot less today.

11/28/2011 By Laura Dannen