Arts & Culture

Art Walk

Where to Go This First Thursday: May 2015

African religiousness, flowery skulls, and tricky photography highlight this month's offerings.

05/06/2015 By Seth Sommerfeld

Arts Funding

Don't Forget to GiveBig Today

Support Seattle arts nonprofits before midnight and have your donations matched.

05/05/2015 By Seth Sommerfeld

Film

Descending to Heck with Brett Morgen

The director discusses the creation of the documentary Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck.

05/04/2015 By Seth Sommerfeld

Bang for Your Buck

Cheap Week Seattle: May 4–10

Translations film festival gives a spotlight to the trans art community and Ivan and Alyosha releases a new album: the best ways to spend your week without spending much.

05/04/2015 By Josh Kelety

Pop Culture Blast

Monday Morning Pick-Me-Up: Wiig of Thrones and Conan on Letterman

Plus, Iska Dhaaf, Amy Schumer, and the Oxford comma

05/04/2015 By Seth Sommerfeld

Met Picks

Top Things to See or Do in Seattle: May 2015

Marc Maron delivers humorous vitriol, Sasquatch! Festival celebrates Memorial Day, and Seattle Symphony shows off a young local violin virtuoso.

05/04/2015 By Seth Sommerfeld

Seattle Sound

Album of the Month: St. Kilda's Self-Titled LP

Local soundtrack specialists craft an album of atmospheric indie folk that's all their own.

04/30/2015 By Seth Sommerfeld

Local Talent

A Fiendish Conversation with STIFF's Will Chase

We talk with STIFF's programming director as the event reinvents itself as the Seattle Transmedia and Independent Film Festival.

04/30/2015 By Seth Sommerfeld

The Weekend Starts...Now

The Top Things to Do This Weekend: April 30–May 3

The Phantom of the Opera descends on the Paramount, Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally get dirty, and Seattle Symphony unveils Trimpin's latest kinetic sculpture.

04/30/2015 By Seattle Met Staff

Film News

Seattle International Film Festival Unveils Its 2015 Lineup

This year's offerings include big comedies, Pixar, foodie flicks, David Foster Wallace, and SIFF degrees of separation with Kevin Bacon.

04/29/2015 By Seth Sommerfeld

Festival Season

Bumbershoot 2015 Features Ellie Goulding, Faith No More, and the Weeknd

The Labor Day weekend fest also includes Hozier, Chance the Rapper, Fitz and the Tantrums, Social Distortion, Brand New, and Neko Case. Tickets on sale now.

04/29/2015 By Seth Sommerfeld

The Sporting Life

Statistical Proof That John Schneider Is an NFL Draft Genius

He makes every other GM in the NFC West look like an amateur.

04/28/2015 By Matthew Halverson

Mudroom

Perfect Party May 2015

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

04/28/2015 By Seattle Met Staff

Photography

These Pictures Will Change Your Definition of Road Tripping

In Boondock, photographer Andrew Waits captures images of a mobile life.

04/28/2015 By Matthew Halverson

Pop Culture Blast

Monday Morning Pick-Me-Up: Cobain Covers the Beatles and 'Key and Obama'

Plus Chris Rock breaks down Major League Baseball's issues, a better Superman, and Iron and Wine.

04/27/2015 By Seth Sommerfeld

The Weekend Starts...Now

The Top Things to Do This Weekend: April 23–26

The record-setting Angry Housewives returns to the Seattle stage, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck gets a theatrical release, and NFFTY shows off young filmmakers.

04/23/2015 By Seattle Met Staff

Local Talent

A Fiendish Conversation with Alice Gosti

The Italian-born choreographer discusses her epic and thematically dense five-hour How to Become a Partisan.

04/22/2015 By Seth Sommerfeld

Seattle Sound

The Rocky Road to Redemption

Rocky Votolato had given up on music. But with Chris Walla's help, he's crafted his best album in a decade, Hospital Handshakes.

04/21/2015 By Seth Sommerfeld

Ticket Alert

ZooTunes Lays Out Its 2015 Summer Concert Lineup

Woodland Park Zoo hosts Melissa Etheridge, the Doobie Brothers, Indigo Girls, Blondie, Mavis Staples, and more.

04/21/2015 By Seth Sommerfeld

Bang for Your Buck

Cheap Week Seattle: April 20–26

Fresh Off The Boat author Eddie Huang dishes on food and culture and Angry Housewives returns: the best ways to spend your week without spending much.

04/20/2015 By Atoosa Moinzadeh