There are three artists lined up to perform at this Thursday's Loft Session and we couldn't be more stoked to show them off. There is no set order at this time as we're trying to keep this one as simple and easy-going as possible. Matt Kinder, Tony Kevin Jr and BC Campbell will be serenading you in a picturesque view of Pioneer Square. Don't miss out on this one, you'll regret it for sure. more ›

Ever since our first Seattlest Music Presents show we've been looking forward to our next adventure. Seattlest Loft Sessions is that new excursion into great local music but this time in an intimate setting. more ›

This week's gathering, one of the last hurrahs for the artists' collective, was significantly more quiet than any art walk I had been to. Despite the collective's impressive unity in the wake of 619's continued clashes with the city, artists were divided on this last bash. Only every other floor -- 3 and 5 -- were open when Seattlest rolled in around 9 p.m., and only one half each of those floors were showing. more ›

This Cinco de Mayo, skip the overpriced margaritas and go to the theatre. Or the art gallery. Or the museum. Or to see a guitar god go wild. It's First Thursday, after all. more ›

1ST 1ST THURSDAY: Today is the first First Thursday of 2011, which means there are plenty of free events going on around town, including Pioneer Square's first art walk of the new year. This year marks the 30th anniversary for the city's largest art walk. Experience Music Project opens its doors to the public for one free day. From 5 p.m. - 8 p.m., they'll offer entrance to Battlestar Galactica: The Exhibition and free music by Gig Harbor group Us On Roofs. The Baltic Room (1207 Pine St.) hosts Scratch Lounge, a monthly event for DJs to show each other what they can do, also featuring Q&A scratch sessions, juggling exhibitions, and beat/production exhibitions. Scratch Lounge goes from 8 p.m. - 1 a.m. with drink specials until 11 p.m. more ›

STREET LIFE: Pioneer Square's Flatcolor Gallery has the Can't Miss exhibition of the month. Kicking off tonight with August's First Thursday Artwalk is Flatcolor's presentation of three national graffiti artists with a bevy of beautiful street style displays. First is Bay area's Bigfoot, a nature loving artist and skateboard designer. Bigfoot started by writing his name on the streets of San Francisco and now he's moved on to respectable artforms, working with Strangeco, The North Face, Hurley, et al. North Carolina's Chip7 is a sort of abstact scifi artist whose compositions call to mind chaotic and colorful future cartoon lands. The third artist, El Kamino, is a graffiti painter from Virginia. Meditating on nature and technology, El Kamino, like Bigfoot, uses the organic against the constructed, often with striking effect. The show is also presented by The Art of Storytelling. more ›

Tonight's the Seattle Art Museum's First Thursday event, which means you can get in free after hours. If you haven't seen the SAM's current exhibition of Alexander Calder mobiles, you're missing out -- Calder's work is truly stunning: miniscule mobiles that could double as earrings, towering monstrosities teetering precariously on a single lever, and beautifully abstract visual art. more ›

At last week's First Thursday in Pioneer Square, we happened upon Molly Norris' exhibit at the Marni Muir Gallery and were all the better for it. Culture Complex: Editoons is described in the promotional literature as "illustrated satire and thoughts in both 2- and 3-D by this local writer, artist, and filmmaker," but we'd call it "New Yorker cartoons if they were actually funny." more ›

OPENING: A new art gallery in Pioneer Square! What a thought. Flatcolor Gallery celebrates its grand opening as part of First Thursday art walk tonight, with work by 2H and Parskid. The gallery is the brain-child of Christopher Cook, who founded Flatcolor.com a few years back as a clearinghouse for limited-run works by local artists on the web. 5-9 p.m. // 528 First Ave. S. // free! more ›

It's the first Thursday of February, which means that the Seattle Art Museum is open "After Hours," and entrance is free. Their Art for All musical guest is okanomodé, and provokes this cross-pollinated promotional copy:

Melding composition, style and genre with the skill of Basquiat blending color, okanomodé spins song into frenzy and makes magic with his tongue.

Are you there Seattle art world? It's us, Seattlest. We're trying our best to talk up your First Thursday openings, but it looks like you've crapped out on us this month. We understand: you're on vacation or something, it's kinda hot out, the BLUE ANGELS are in the sky ... We've got posts to post, however, and damned if we won't find something to recommend from your namby-pamby Art Walk offerings. more ›

The weather is stunning and you need to burn off yesterday's celebratory beef and beer, right? Right. Luckily for you, it's First Thursday! So get off your duff, take a stroll and enjoy some free art. Here are our ten picks for tonight's walk: more ›

First Thursday's nice and all, but we're also a fan of first Sunday -- that's when I Heart Rummage, Seattle's most famous urban craft show, takes center stage at the Crocodile. Do we get there as often as we'd like? No. Do we love it when we do go? Yes. more ›

Yep, it's First Thursday again. So when you're hanging out in Pioneer Square this evening, going from gallery to gallery, trying to determine who has the best art (and, more importantly, the best free wine), you might want to stop by All City Coffee for a bit. Because they are currently displaying some truly awesome quilts, and for the first time ever, that's not a contradiction in terms. more ›

Occidental Square has always been kind of awesome and uniquely Seattle, to this writer at least. It's walled in yet open, yet cluttered, yet ordered. There's a distinctive sense of wood, but the predominant building material is stone or brick. There are no people, but there are trees! Have you ever been to a square in Europe? They're great in their own quaint little way, but they're somewhat of a celebration of treelessness. "Hell yeah there was a forest here when we showed up - We fucking hacked it down and replaced it with all these cobble stones and scary churches and shit." That kind of thing was cool a few centuries ago. more ›

-There was a positive development in the life of the woman who was once a P-I reporter and a spy, which is a change as you can imagine. more ›

Tonight, Capitol Hill officially joins the club, with their first (ever?) Capitol Hill Art Walk at 7-9pm. The CHAW, as people who enjoy smokeless tobacco like to say, will be a monthly First Thursday event, just like the ones in Pioneer Square and Downtown. more ›

First Thursday passed, and if you did the Walk that doesn't mean that you've put in your art appreciation time for the month and you're off the hook. There're some exhibits worth seeing at COCA and Born Magazine's "Help Wanted" show, specifically the "Afterwords" video wall. Don't miss it--it's behind the rummage sale/"Estate of Beverly Thomas" piece. more ›