The tickets going on sale this week are scant in number but not in awesomeness! A second Sting show has been added, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah is visiting and there's a Global Dance Party headed to the Moore Theatre. Check it out, you'll be sorry if you miss your opportunity to get in while the gettin's good. more ›

The Fremont Abbey is hosting a unique experience tonight and you will be missing a one-of-a-kind concert by not attending. Thirteen bands, one stage, one night. It's bound to be eclectic, beautiful and fun. more ›

Many people have used the word fiery to describe Neko Case’s bright red hair but it could easily be a description of her more ›

Last night, I went as Alex Hudson's plus-one to celebrate 4Culture's recent win: the passing of SB 5834. It was wonderful. more ›

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Now is the time of year when lots of people go out to enjoy a little bit of high cult-cha. Whether it's The Nutcracker at PNB, Black Nativity at the Moore or Beethoven at the Symphony, the holiday season is ripe with opportunities to get yourself out there and live it up in the city. This is a behavior of which we stand firmly in support. more ›

Polling of grant funders revealed that they'd lost about twenty-two percent of their assets in 2008 and forecast losing another ten percent in 2009. Because they base their funding on rolling three-year intervals, artists and arts organizations can look forward to seeing the impact of these losses in 2011 and 2012 (in addition to an immediate ten-to-twenty five percent decrease in individual giving this year). God help you if you're a new organization, or are looking for funds from new sources, because the prevailing wisdom was that funders weren't looking for new opportunities. more ›

Performance art happening alert! Brendan Kiley sums Moore Inside Out for you: "4Culture (King County's arts-funding wing) and Seattle Theatre Group (a large nonprofit that owns the Moore) approached Free Sheep with $30,000 to turn the Moore out with performance, installation, street art, music, and more. It's one night only, it's this Saturday, and it's free." We should add that it's from 6-10 p.m. Here's the Moore Theatre's take on the goings-on, which end with a parade/procession led by the Balkan brass band, Orkestar Zirkonium, from the Moore Theatre to an afterparty at the Belltown Underground Event Center (2407 1st Ave, between Battery & Wall). more ›

"Sustainable is a crappy vision," announced Peter Senge (pronounced "senn-gay"), author of The Fifth Discipline, which has nothing to do with the film Milla Jovovich was in. He was just off the plane from China, making a stop for a leadership keynote address this morning to the Americans for the Arts meet-up at Seattle's Convention Center, before continuing on home to Massachusetts. more ›

• The Rainier Valley Post has photos of the landslide that shut down the 9700 block of Rainier Avenue for most of the yesterday's business hours. Around 5 p.m. yesterday, the block re-opened to cars--this time with concrete barriers in place, just in case more earth thought it would be fun to interrupt traffic flow.
• King County jails are shaking things up in light of the budget crisis sweeping the state. The Daily Weekly reports that inmates will have to start wearing their orange jumpsuits all the time, now, to save on laundry costs.
• There's a new local music and arts site in town--ReignCity has arrived! We've been super-psyched for launch. What's online now is exactly what the urban arts needs in Seattle: a sortable, easy-on-the-eyes calendar, a music news blog, and event spotlights.

One of the Seattle arts community's most recent teacup tempests was the abrupt departure on September 11 of executive director Lyall Bush from Richard Hugo House, following a six-week leave of absence. According to a NWFF release in our inbox, Bush will now be interim executive director of the Northwest Film Forum, just down the street from Hugo House. "Bush brings a passion, vision and history of working with nonprofit arts organizations to his new position," says the release, and adds that "most recently Bush served as the executive director of Richard Hugo House, where he raised the organization’s visibility in the city and energized the board and staff around his new vision for programs and development." more ›

Antologia Polski (2:00 p.m.) brings you 50 years of Polish animation, and if you're honest with yourself, this is really the one time in your life you will have the chance to peek inside at SIFF Cinema (north side of McCaw Hall) and see a lot of Seattle's Polish population. more ›

Capitol Hill's hardest working man in show business, CHAC's Matthew Kwatinetz, has been devoting long hours to the survival of Odd Fellows Hall as an arts space, ever since he found out about the planned sale. more ›

A loud, garish co-production with American Musical Theatre of San Jose and St. Paul’s Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, this Cabaret steers clear of good taste in more ways than one. Its Kit Kat Klub has an authentically German, middlebrow's-night-on-the-town feel. As directed by Billy Berry and choreographed by Bob Richard, the show is miles away from the seventies sleaze of the Bob Fosse film or the sexual apocalypse of the show emceed by Alan Cumming, yet borrows touches from both. (We also liked the faux Burberry outfits for the English schoolgirl skit.) more ›

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Last night at Benaroya Hall, author Richard Powers read from a new short story called "Modulation." It was classic Powers; a dense, far-reaching, and meticulously vivid tale of a computer virus that infects music player devices via filesharing sites. He weaves the story around four different individuals: a Japanese hacker recently released from prison and now employed by the RIAA to huntdown filesharers, a Brazilian journalist researching soldiers in Iraq who blast ear-crunching music from their vehicles when they go out on missions, a forlorn music scholar on the eve of his retirement from a mid-western University, and a young laptop battler who agonizes over keeping track of the ever-multiplying sub-genres of electronic music and enthralls with his live performances of entirely computerized music that rely heavily on audio samples from early-80s video games. more ›

There are two more poets due in town for the Seattle Arts and Lectures Poetry Series, both in April. Lucille Clifton shows up at the Intiman on April 7, Edward Hirsch on April 21. more ›

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Are you looking for exciting theatre outside the Seattle city limits? If you are interested in the artistic works of people from all around the Northwest, you can still check out the four remaining shows of the Northwest Playwrights Alliance (NPA) Festival of Northwest Plays in Tacoma. The festival will showcase three new full-length plays and several 10 minute plays with themes varying from disaster survivors to “tongue-in-cheek potty humor.” more ›

Is February Jane Austen month? PBS has turned every Sunday evening into a Jane celebration (see the KCTS Jane Austen blog for the definition of overkill), but if you want to experience Jane Austen the way she meant to be experienced (if you get our drift) and are too lazy to read a book, then Book-It's Persuasion is all you, baby. more ›

Tonight the documentary Inlaws & Outlaws opens at Central Cinema. It's about marriage, who's got it, who doesn't, who wants it. As it's showing at Central Cinema, it all comes with pizza and beer if you want to make a dinner documentary of it. more ›

From the real-life inspiration of Seattle-based writer and performer Joanna Horowitz comes 100 Heartbreaks, a story about country singer hopeful Charlane Tucker. Tucker, a self-proclaimed expert at hook-ups, break-ups and hangovers, is a regular girl who desperately wants to "make it" in the country music world. Her genius plan to get to Nashville: Find 100 men who will love and leave her. more ›

The highlight is you get to live, subsidized, in one of the “Hugo Huts”—Seattle’s historic Belltown Cottages. The rent subsidy doesn't include utilities, jackets with worn corduroy patches on the elbows, or afternoon drinks at Black Bottle. more ›

at the Capitol Hill Arts Center. Daisey takes aim at the theater for its manifold failures: its pretentions, its disconnect from the world around it, its self-satisfaction. (Check out a five-minute sample over at the Slog.) more ›

More details. Please don't let the arts community down. One day in Olympia. It's fun down there! If you have a day job, maybe think about participating by sending an email with this handy form from WA State Arts Alliance. more ›

8 pm tonight (& Saturday) // UW's Meany Theater // Tickets $20-$40 more ›

For all those interested, tonight the Capitol Hill Arts Center will be hosting a panel discussion with the Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce on the topic of "Is there still room for culture on Capitol Hill?" The impetus behind the event is the generally rapacious rate of condo-conversion and construction that's pushed out notable businesses along Pike/Pine, and now finds its apogee in the sale of Oddfellows Hall, which threatens to displace a number of arts organizations that took advantage of the low rents. Without access to such buildings, arts organizations could face a rapid exodus from Capitol Hill, hastening its transformation to yuppie-land. All those interested should attend. more ›

Last night we made up for our dumb-assedness last week and caught episode 2 of Douglas Coupland's , and damn if that weren't a strange beast. Coupland's surreal, self-referential, novelistic discourse on globalism has been transformed into an odd-ball, dry-humored, dramedy miniseries that's strangely addictive. more ›