The #1 way to celebrate Bumbershoot is to do something free today. more ›

This month, Bellevue Arts Museum will showcase the rare art of large-scale felt-making. Olympia-based felt artist, Janice Arnold will use BAM’s forum as a “dry studio.” Accompanied by her assistant, Emma Lyall, they will create a new series of window displays for the museum. more ›

MORE THAN WALKIN: Does life imitate art, or does art imitate life? Do shoes count as life? For Beth Levine they did, and that’s why her creations and styles have had more of an influence on shoes today than the work of any other shoe designer in history. (Ladies can thank Levine for bringing boots to popularity in the 1960s.) Marilyn Monroe and Cher wore her designs. And Nancy Sinatra’s boots that were made for walkin’? Those were Levine’s, too. But for Levine, shoes were much more than practical facts of life; they were canvases for some of the most impressive fashion based art of the 20th century. Head to Bellevue Arts Museum for an exhibition of Levine’s work from chic to avant-garde. The First Lady of Shoes gave future designers big ones to fill. more ›

UNREAL: David Shields' Reality Hunger:A Manifesto is a very weird, very original book which doesn't actually have as much to do with reality television as you might think. Shields reads from his genre-bending work tonight at Third Place Books. more ›

A suggestion for a cultural outing tonight, assuming that the Eastside is convenient or alluring: John Nauman's piano recital, the second installment of the Bellevue Philharmonic Steinway Series. more ›

Friday night local pianist Judith Cohen was featured in the first installment of the Bellevue Philharmonic’s Steinway Series. (The second features John Nauman, performing Liszt, Scarlatti, Haydn, Scriabin, and his own original composition, on January 16th.) more ›