GENUINELY COOL, ARTSY FARTSY NIGHT: Go to the Filter release party at the Richard Hugo House tonight for readings, hobnob opps with writerly folks, and performances by Awesome!. The literary magazine celebrates the release of its second issue, and if you haven't seen this work of art yet, you may not know: this is a beautiful and well-crafted literary magazine, not only in content but in construction. more ›

It seems that another year will pass without a Pearl Jam concert in Seattle. So it goes. Of no small consolation: Between trips to the studio to record their next album, the band's members will appear all over town in the coming months. Here's who, where, and when: more ›

Kaki King is one of those guitarists who makes us feel like a fool for even eying the instrument, much less admitting we've been playing it for more than a decade. She is to the guitar what Chris Thile is to the mandolin: a freak of nature, an alien, or some other otherworldly being. It's just not humanly possible to be that allied with a piece of wood: more ›