On this Tuesday you can learn how to fall down better in public, listen to some young authors' new works, and celebrate winter at the Seattle Center. more ›

Today is all about books. And history. 2 books about Seattle's history and 1 book about someone else's history. more ›

We celebrated geek girl culture at the Seattle Center yesterday, and have a gallery to prove it. more ›

Look, it's another convention for nerds! YAY! more ›

As the weekend approaches with so much music and performance to get to around town, many are reflecting on (and maybe still recovering from) Bumbershoot. Reviews on last weekend’s festival have been appearing in local websites, with the feedback being quite mixed. Here’s a look at what some are saying about the state of the city’s largest arts fest. more ›

Each year Bumbershoot features an enviable lineup of national and international music acts. Just as impressive, though, is the collection of homegrown talent to grace the art fest’s stages. Saturday at the festival featured many Seattle artists representing a wide range of musical genres, including rising electronic duo Beat Connection. more ›

After a long day of music, theatre, dance, and other performance, Saturday at Bumbershoot concluded with tired crowds resting in the common areas of the festival grounds. Among the most popular sites was Seattle Center’s Fountain Lawn, where STRFKR provided the chilled soundtrack for the collective calm down. more ›

Saturday afternoon at Bumbershoot and the mood is celebratory, expectant. The crowds are already deep, and everyone is basking in the bright sunshine knowing that three days of music and performance lie ahead. Among the first musical acts to help kick things off: Seattle pop masters Craft Spells, who just left the Fountain Lawn Stage to the cheers of hometown fans. more ›

For most of us Seattlites Bumbershoot is one more indication of summer being in full swing and fall looming just around the corner. To some it may also be another annoying festival taking over downtown during the scant amount of beautiful days we have in this city. Then there are those who excitedly look forward to the musical event of the season, buy their tickets early and start acting weirdly giddy in the few days leading up to Labor Day weekend. Most likely you fit on the fringes of several of these categories, as do we. more ›

We couldn't be more excited by the news that Queen Anne's Uptown Theater's operations will be taken over by SIFF. We had feared the building would be torn down and turned into condos like every other abandoned movie house in town. more ›

Frank offers pragmatic advice on how to thoroughly enjoy the Bite of Seattle's dirty 30th birthday. Get ready to taste your way through the weekend. more ›

At the Seattle Center by Jon Codini from the Seattlest Flickr pool. more ›

We went to the Seattle International Beer Festival. We took pictures. Kind of like an average Saturday with your friends, only less incriminating. more ›

Seattle has an eventful week ahead—with everything from mysteries, to music, to Riot grrrl memories on the horizon. more ›

For four fabulous Fridays and one Saturday KEXP and the Seattle Center are bringing you Concerts at the Mural once again this year. Ensuring the best possible weather (though, who really knows at this point), the series will run through most of August, bringing you some of the best of local music. more ›

What's the plan? Karaoke for a cause, The Airborne Toxic Event and Austen at the Center are on our calendar today. more ›

We watched the Parks & Seattle Center meeting so you didn't have to. The verdict? Maybe not all bad. more ›

St. Patrick may have effectively become the patron saint of drinking, but the man was a pretty austere dude. As he wrote in his Confessio, "I used to stay out in the forests and on the mountain and I would wake up before daylight to pray in the snow, in icy coldness, in rain, and I used to feel neither ill nor any slothfulness, because, as I now see, the Spirit was burning in me at that time." Hardcore, Pat. more ›

One thing that we find delightful about the Seattle news environment is that occasionally it combines a small-town mentality with big-budget, big-city projects. This is one of those occasions. more ›

HOLMES FOR THE HOLIDAYS: Taproot Theatre intended to premiere Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Christmas Carol last year, but when an arsonist's fire shut down the theatre for months, it was forced to cancel the Holmes world debut and instead staged It's a Wonder Life: A Live Radio Play at North Seattle Community College. Now that Taproot has returned to its full glory, Sherlock Holmes and the Christmas Carol finally meets its stage. In this presentation, Holmes has gone the way of old Scrooge. Hardened toward the Christmas Spirit, he is visited by three Christmas Eve callers that provide him clues from his past, present, and future. more ›

Some days are big deals. Christmas, the day after Thanksgiving, Superbowl Sunday: all notable. But every now and then a day comes around that really blows the others out of the water. A day to be celebrated for ages...something that is a big frakking deal. Friday, for us, was such a day. Because Friday, as you are all so very aware, was the day the Battlestar Galactica exhibit opened at the EMP|SFM. And oh my Gods were we there. more ›

"TITLE OF PHOTO" by Photocoyote, from our Flickr pool more ›

"Day 202/366 - Arches" by Tony Case ( tonyjcase ), from our Flickr pool more ›

From Everest first taking the stage, through the various moments of audio and comedic bliss throughout the long weekend, to the last chords strummed by Metric's James Shaw, we were incredibly thankful for all that Bumbershoot--this city's oldest music festival--has to offer. As we recollect, we invite you to spend some time clicking through this photo gallery made up of shots from the Seattlest Flickr Pool. more ›

OK, so the Huskies match against the Tigers didn’t exactly give us the outcome we were hoping for, but at least the heartfelt performances by all in purple and gold made the city proud. While that game has come and gone, there is still one main event that is in full force. Of course, we speak of Bumbershoot, our city’s own music festival that was born as a city-funded event in 1971. more ›

Despite what some may lead you to believe, music in Seattle is incredibly rich in its diversity. Sure, we go through obsessive periods honed in on specific genres-- last year it was all about harmony-rich folk, this year it seems to be more about straight-ahead rock—but there is certainly something here that should please every music fan. more ›

Lots of great live music possibilities this weekend! more ›

If you’re one of those people who can’t even sew on a button, then you might be dubious about the extent to which such a skill could translate into a lucrative business. Well, it most certainly can and, based on the high number of giddy participants at Urban Craft Uprising this weekend, it often does. more ›

KEXP FAVORITES LIVE & FREE!: Kick off the weekend tonight by heading to KEXP's Concerts at the Mural, the first of the free all-ages concert series put on at the Seattle Center. Tonight's tunes will feature a few of KEXP's favorite bands: Blitzen Trapper and Throw Me The Statue. The show is tailored to the culturally curious, seeking out best of the area’s independent music scene. Most importantly, the beer garden opens at 5 p.m. with the show shortly after. 6:00-8:00 p.m., Fri. // Seattle Center Mural Amphitheatre, 305 Harrison St // Free (not including beer) more ›

Hey, we made the Los Angeles Times: "In a ruling with potentially wide implications for street artists throughout the West, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday struck down curbs imposed by Seattle on those performing at the popular Seattle Center, home of the landmark Space Needle." more ›