NOT NOW, ARCTIC PUFFIN: Jon Favreau's 2003 charming movie Elf has become a holiday staple for a lot of us. Get off your couch and watch the lovely holiday feel-gooder with your fellow Seattleites. Bob Newhart!! more ›

A couple weeks ago, we erroneously reported that button-down genius Bob Newhart would share the Benaroya Hall stage with the Seattle Symphony. Though Newhart is indeed an amateur drummer, we regret to inform there’ll be no such onstage mashup. However, it is true that Bob and Bob alone will perform his standup comedy act at Benaroya -- where in 1999 we attended his last Seattle performance -- Friday night at 8 and Saturday afternoon at 3. more ›

The Tuba is the red-headed stepchild of the orchestra; always shunted to the back, never in the spotlight. But not anymore! Tonight, the Tuba will finally get its due. The Seattle Symphony is pairing Seattle Symphony Composer in Residence Samuel Jones’s Concerto for Tuba and Orchestra with Tchaikovsky’s much-loved "Pathetique" Symphony (No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74). The world premiere (of Jones's piece) was Thursday but you could go today and still say you’d been to the premiere. We sure aren’t going to tell anyone. more ›