Things to Do in November: This & That

The Best Culture and Community Events Happening This Month

Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Theater & Performance, Film, Food & Drink, This & That. Sea-Meow Convention 2026Nov 7–8Dog people have the luxury of showing off their pets on daily walks, but we cat owners have to settle for photos, hoping that an image can convey our cat’s…

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Things to Do in November: Food & Drink

The Best Food & Drink Events Happening This Month

Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Theater & Performance, Film, Food & Drink, This & That. The Polish Fall BazaarNov 7If you’re new to Seattle, attending a festival at precious little Dom Polski, aka Polish Home Association, is mandatory to becoming a local. The Polish Fall Bazaar is the…

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Things to Do in November: Film

The Best Film Events and Screenings Happening This Month

Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Theater & Performance, Film, Food & Drink, This & That. SECS Fest 2026Nov 6–8I am obsessed with vintage erotica, and not for the reason you probably think. Back in the 1960s and ’70s, directors of pornographic films had an equal dedication to erotic…

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Things to Do in November: Theater & Performance

The Best Theater, Dance, and Comedy Events Happening This Month

Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Theater & Performance, Film, Food & Drink, This & That. Oh, Mary!Through Nov 8If you don’t know about the cultural phenomenon that is Oh, Mary!, then allow me to try and explain: Playwright Cole Escola’s Broadway smash follows the life of Mary Todd…

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Things to Do in November: Literature

The Best Talks and Readings Happening This Month

Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Theater & Performance, Film, Food & Drink, This & That. Andrew Joseph White: You’re No BetterNov 12Andrew Joseph White’s 2022 dystopian fantasy horror young adult novel Hell Followed With Us established him as an author to watch and attracted the notice of The…

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Things to Do in November: Visual Art

The Best Art Shows and Events Happening This Month

Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Theater & Performance, Film, Food & Drink, This & That. Hyunjeong Lim: Archive of the MindThrough Dec 19Drawing from traditional Korean landscape and Renaissance painting, Hyunjeong Lim’s landscapes have an almost fairytale-like quality, and they’re packed with so much detail, you can’t help…

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Things to Do in November: Music

The Best Concerts and Dance Nights Happening This Month

Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Theater & Performance, Film, Food & Drink, This & That. Big Star QuintetNov 4Band reformations featuring only one original member should always draw skepticism—such as this one with drummer Jody Stephens representing Memphis power-pop legends Big Star. Would you really want to see…

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One of the Bravest Girls Alive

Corin Tucker on Reviving Her First Band, Heavens to Betsy

When Corin Tucker’s pre-Sleater-Kinney band with Tracy Sawyer, Heavens to Betsy, announced their first show in 32 years, they did it the old-fashioned way: by plastering flyers across Portland. Nevertheless, the show sold out almost immediately, and I, all the way in Seattle, was seething with envy. The 1994 album Calculated is one of my…

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Oops! All Ghosts!

Ballet and Spooky Season Belong Together

The Nutcracker may be canonically known as the official ballet of holiday hell, but not enough of us are acquainted with the rich Venn diagram that exists between classical ballet and Spooky Season, from the undead brides of Giselle to the baroque body horror of Suspiria. So I am delighted to report that Pacific Northwest…

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Stranger Suggests: Your Agenda This Week, November 2–8

MONDAY 11/2 Kwaidan (FILM) This anthology film is based on four Japanese ghost stories collected in a book by the Greek/Irish writer Lafcadio Hearn, who spent the last part of his life in a Japan that was rapidly modernizing due to the Meiji Restoration (1889-1912). Hearn’s Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things was published…

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