Looking at the week ahead, Jose Amador finds a healthy mix of experimental, new and familiar work from companies small, large, and renown, including a web experiment created by a company you should know about, but probably don't. more ›

Hosted by Seattle (and Vashon) favorite Kevin Kent and Mme X, Burlesco Notturno aims to preserve the burlesque spirit but also to expand it, not only with musical performances but also with aerial arts performance as well. more ›

MAGMA FESTIVAL: Hollow Earth Radio's annual MAGMA Festival continues into its second weekend with two fabulous shows you would do well to attend. First up, Washington Hall hosts The Hive Dwellers, NighTraiN, Militant Child, and Alex Miranda for an evening of delight wrapped in a hardwood shell. Then Saturday brings a swell line-up of the emotionally minded and sweetly deranged with Broken Water, Kunt Kuntroll, and Santee at the mysterious Healthy Times Fun Club. If you're wondering where it is, wander around Capitol Hill until you see the group of wild-haired mystics carrying dowsing rods and sweatbands and follow them. Friday 8:00 p.m. // Washington Hall // $9 Saturday 9:00 p.m. // Healthy Times Fun Club // Donations Accepted more ›

THE FRAT ROCK: This Seattlest is originally from a really small town in Central Florida—a part of the country where bands don't really make a habit of "blowing up" nationwide. Sister Hazel is one of the rare exceptions, and they started their career in Gainesville playing the ever-demanding frat rock circuit. We learned about them from our sorority-member sister, because they played frequent bar parties at FSU. Anyway, it's cool to see them all the way out here playing a venue the size of Showbox at the Market. They're not our favorite band, but we've got to give props to our semi-hometown boys. 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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