May Things to Do: Music
Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food, and This & That. Harmonia Orchestra and Chorus: The Planets May 8 I am a long-time lover of Gustav Holst’s The Planets, a symphonic journey through space written between 1914 and 1918. My personal favorite is the euphorically triumphant “Jupiter,…
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May Things to Do: Visual Art
Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food, and This & That. Seattle Art Book Fair May 9–10 Lovers of art books (and art that comes in the form of books): Arrive rested and ready to immerse in work by more than 85 artists spread across all three…
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May Things to Do: Literature
Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food, and This & That. Dynasty Handbag May 13 Called “Pure genius” by Paul Reubens, “One of the last great people” by Miranda July, and “Insane” by Dick Van Dyke, Dynasty Handbag (aka Jibz Cameron) is a legend among legends. The…
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May Things to Do: Performance
Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food, and This & That. Jesus Christ Superstar Through May 17 Theater can be a hard sell in a failing economy, so how does director Bill Berry lure people through the door when presenting such a well-worn production like Jesus Christ…
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May Things to Do: Film
Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food, and This & That. The Most Terrible Times in My Life May 8–10 Here are three, no four, things I love about The Most Terrible Time in My Life: (1) It’s a detective/gangster flick, (2) it’s shot in black-and-white, (3)…
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April Things to Do: Food
Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food, and This & That. Urban Foraging: Weeds & Wild Foods May 16 Calling all weed heads! If you’ve ever wondered which of those weeds in your yard, in the park, or on the trails could be cooked and eaten, have…
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May Things to Do: This & That
Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food, and This & That. Seattle Storm 2026 Home Opener May 8 The Seattle SuperSonics left Seattle for Oklahoma City in 2008, and longtime Seattleites are still pissed about it. Rightfully so, if you ask me—it was a dirty, sneaky deal!…
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New Column: Touch the Art
It’s May, and this Izzy Nestegard piece, debuting at The Factory on May 14, is tone-matching all the explosive color and big pistil-and-stamen energy in the air. Nestegard is one third of a group show (also featuring artists Melody Hirsch and Mint) bringing psychedelic Alice in Wonderland vibes to Capitol Hill Art Walk this month…
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The SIFF Films We’re Still Talking About
All film stills courtesy of SIFF There are more than 100 films screening during this year’s Seattle International Film Festival, May 7–17, and some of them are amazing. Or, at least, that’s what internet hype and mainstream film critics say. Olivia Wilde’s The Invite incited a bidding war after premiering at Sundance, and Boots Riley’s…
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Quickies
1. My spouse and I haven’t had sex for almost two years. No kids, jobs aren’t stressful, and we still enjoy each other’s company. (At least I enjoy theirs.) The subject of sex never comes up. I don’t miss it, honestly, and I suspect they don’t either. But I don’t know. It’s possible your spouse doesn’t miss…
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This Isn’t Solitary Work
Due to loud construction noises in my home, I had to have this conversation with Tamiko Nimura, author of the new memoir A Place for What We Lose: A Daughter’s Return to Tule Lake, in my bathroom with the door closed. The effect was a very private and personal conversation with a writer unafraid of…
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Slog AM: Gov. Ferguson Dodges the Press, Dems Urge Trump to Acknowledge Israel’s Nukes, Amazon Labor Union Founder Arrested at Met Gala
Seattle Times Management Tells Pulitzer Finalists “Journalism Doesn’t Mean Journalists”: Times staff bargaining for a new union contract are facing management’s infatuation with the plagiarism and lie generating software marketed as “artificial intelligence.” According to the Seattle Times Union, management rejected their proposal that would have guaranteed workers won’t be replaced by AI. Speaking of…
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