Seattle Met Picks
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THEATER
Chef Showdown
Celebrity chefs and unlikely friends Anthony Bourdain and Eric Ripert will dish about the restaurant industry in their one-night stand at the Paramount. It’s being billed as “good versus evil,” but how do they really stack up? Feb 11, Paramount Theatre, stgpresents.org
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Anthony Bourdain |
Eric Ripert |
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Age |
55 |
46 |
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Day Job |
Executive chef of Les Halles in NYC |
"Chef and co-owner of French restaurant Le Bernardin in NYC" |
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Claim to Fame |
Eating bugs and bone marrow on No Reservations. Host of new Travel Channel show The Layover. |
Host of PBS’s Avec Eric; guest judge on Top Chef. |
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Career High-light |
Receiving James Beard nomination, then dissing the ceremony, saying he’d rather attend a “Renaissance fair in hell.” |
Michelin three-star rating for Le Bernardin. Top Zagat rating. Emmys. James Beard Award. Legion d’Honneur recipient… can we stop now? |
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Career Low-light |
"Calling vegans the “Hezbollah-like splinter faction” of vegetarians." |
Being confused for Kelly Ripa. |
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Good or Evil? |
Evil genius. |
Good. Kills lobsters humanely. |
Concerts
Pickin’ & Strummin’
Break out the banjo: Nearly 30 bluegrass, gypsy jazz, and old-timey bands descend on Bellevue for the annual Wintergrass Bluegrass Festival. Feb 23–26, Hyatt Regency Bellevue, wintergrass.com
Books & Talks
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“Time is a goon…a cartoonish enforcer. You know, the muscle you can’t get past.”
—Jennifer Egan, author of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize–winning novel A Visit from the Goon Squad, talks about Father Time and his enforcers at Benaroya Hall. Feb 1, Seattle Arts and Lectures, lectures.org
Books & Talks
Revolution 2.0
Young Google exec Wael Ghonim became an inadvertent revolutionary with a simple Facebook protest. In a Town Hall conversation with Dorothy Parvaz, a former Seattle P-I reporter detained in Syria last year, Ghonim goes inside the 2011 Egyptian uprising he helped spark. Feb 8, Town Hall, townhallseattle.org
Visual Art
Photo: Courtesy NY Carlsberg Glyptotek Copenhagen/Seattle Art Museum
Paradise Lost
Despite the lushness of his Tahitian paintings, Paul Gauguin never found that idyllic paradise he sought in 19th-century Polynesia. Examine 50 of the master’s works—and 60 by Polynesian artists—at Seattle Art Museum. Feb 9–Apr 29, Seattle Art Museum, seattleartmuseum.org
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Read our full interview with Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of A Visit From the Goon Squad.
