Being a holiday week and all, events are a little sparse—but we still do have some good ones! So get your turkey-stuffed bodies out of the house, and enjoy your week in Seattle lit events. more ›

Lots of events this week! Here are just a few... more ›

Maybe you're a parent who's just moved to the Seattle area and wondering what the natives do when The Grim strikes again for the winter. Or maybe you've got young visitors coming into town, and you're not sure how to entertain them. Here are some of our favorite ways to celebrate autumn with the kiddos in Seattle. more ›

MONSTER MASH: Many fans of mash-up music probably have The Hood Internet's website at the top of their bookmarks list -- and for anyone who doesn't, now's as good a time as ever to start. For going on four years, the DJ duo has given away a handful of mixtapes and hundreds of well-crafted party tunes, downloadable online. There's no doubting the duo's ability to pair indie rock with hip-hop, taking classic songs and making them even better, adding melody to hip-hop and giving indie favorites much needed attitude or a dance floor beat. This TI / Liars mash-up is a good example. This ODB / White Williams combo is a good one too. Even better than enjoying the tunes through headphones? Hearing The Hood Internet working live. more ›

VOLLMAN VISITS: William T. Vollmann is in town to read from his latest nonfiction work, Kissing the Mask. This book is the first American work on the topic of the historical Japanese Noh Theater since Ezra Pound's 1916 classic study, Pisan Cantos and the Noh. Vollmann is absolutely amazing and this is truly a reading not to be missed. more ›

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Last Friday we got a chance to poke our noses into the Northwest African American Museum before it opened, as part of a test lunch group for the St Clouds Museum Cafe. The Museum is in the historic Colman School, at 23rd and Massachusetts. It's historic now, that is -- back when we lived across the street, on 25th, it was condemned, boarded up, and left a home for pigeons, until a group of black activists arm-wrestled the city into letting them do something with it. Upstairs there are two floors of "affordable" rental units (studios are $620) for artists, historians, teachers, and anyone else with a good reason to make their home above the Museum. more ›