A true sense of humor needs to balance all the elements of life, including the serious bits, with all their degrees of gradation. The UW's production of Picasso at the Lapin Agile succeeds at the lighter end of the scale. more ›

Hey, straggler! This is your last chance to take a peek at the Seattle Art Museum's biggest show EVER before it closes on Monday, January 17th. more ›

DON'T FORGET THE GROCERIES: Do you have enough marinara sauce for tonight's pasta? Did you remember to make a lunch? How's your milk looking? If you need any type of grocery item today then we strongly recommend that you head to your nearest Whole Foods. And it's not because we think that you need to be shopping exclusively organic (that gets expensive). It's because today 5 percent of sales from all five Puget Sound Whole Foods (Bellevue, Interbay, Redmond, Roosevelt Square, Westlake) will be donated to Lifelong AIDS Alliance to help them feed hungry people with their Chicken Soup Brigade. Lifelong AIDS Alliance's food program feeds hundreds each week with bags of groceries and individualized meals. The meals are an important part of maintaining the health of people living with HIV/AIDS and other life-challenging illnesses. Feed yourself, help feed others. Win-win. more ›

The Seattle Art Museum laid out its exhibit plans for the next couple of years, beginning with its October blockbuster, "Picasso Masterpieces." The national Picasso museum in Paris is undergoing renovations so they're sending much of the collection--Picasso's private stash, mostly--on a worldwide tour: Madrid, Moscow, Helsinki, Seattle. Seattle? Yes, indeed. "This is what we built the museum to do," director Derrick Cartwright told a press luncheon. An extremely ambitioius undertaking, 150 pieces, that requires a couple of "Presenting Sponsors" (Microsoft and JP Moran Chase) not to mention a "major sponsor" (Sotheby's) and a hotel sponsor (the Four Seasons, duh, right across First Avenue). more ›

This exhibit will cover every phase of Picasso's career,from his early 20th century forays into painting to work from the 1970s just prior to his death. The exhibit is only possible because the Musee Picasso, which houses much of Picasso's work, has closed for renovations -- otherwise these paintings would be viewable only in Paris. more ›

Legend has it that Tom Hanks took the part of Picasso in the first reading of Steve Martin's play Picasso at the Lapine Agile back in the mid-nineties. Martin tried multiple times to get this play about the big forces of the Twentieth Century--embodied by Einstein and Picasso--swirling around a Parisian bar made into a movie without success, but if he could ever get the project together, and if Hanks could take some time off from his busy ripping-off-Umberto-Eco career, and if, perhaps, Martin himself could take on a role...well, let us tell you right now--that movie would fucking suck. more ›