April 2008

Summer Guide 2010: Festivals

Category: seattlepi.com teaser headlines   From the arts to food, here’s our guide to the area’s best summer fests. Looking for more summer events? Check out our Outdoor Music and Outdoor Movies guides. JUNE Edmonds Arts Festival6/18–6/20What to expect: One of the Northwest’s oldest and largest arts festivals, this three-day event takes place against the scenic…

Make It Work! Seattle’s Arts Enablers: Carlo Scandiuzzi

Category: Arts + Events Articles   In the past year, ACT Theatre’s Central Heating Lab (acttheatre.org/Community/CentralHeatingLab.aspx)—an initiative providing space and resources for a wide range of up-and-coming artists to develop new work—has put on a showcase for local filmmakers, a poetry slam, a stand-up comedy night and a performance by the Seattle Dance Project, to…

The Weekend Must List: June 26 – 28, 2009

Our top to-do's for this Friday, Saturday and Sunday

Category: Articles   FRIDAY, JUNE 26 Treeless Mountain at Northwest Film Forum This multi-award-winning film by Korean-American filmmaker So Yong Kim is a semi-autobiographical story about young sisters growing up in Seoul. Small yet stunning, the story follows the girls as they are repeatedly abandoned by hapless adults and learn to fend for themselves, together,…

Pleased to meet you

Category: seattlepi.com teaser headlines   SAM Gallery’s annual Introductions show brings up-and-coming Northwest artists to light. So you’re thinking that Georgia O’Keeffe painting at the Seattle Art Museum would look awesome in your living room (it matches the sofa!). Well, forget it. Even if you could afford to shop there, SAM’s collection is not for…

2009 WA Wine Awards: Best New Winery

Daniel Ferrelli, a second-generation Italian, turns a hobby into a winning winery

Category: Eat + Drink Articles   Best New WineryEfeste WinesDaniel Ferrelli, a second-generation Italian, had been making wine at home for years. In 2004, joined by his son-in-law Kevin Taylor and family friend Patrick Smith, he followed his passion and formed Efeste Wines (pronounced F-S-T, after the first letters of their last names). The trio…

The Weekend Must List: September 25-27

From a sketch comedy schmorgasborg to reflection and laughter with Carol Burnett, here are our top t

Category: Seattlepi.com featured stories   From a sketch comedy schmorgasborg to reflection and laughter with Carol Burnett, here are our top to-do’s for this Friday, Saturday and a Sunday FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25SketchfestcomedyCareful, you might hurt yourself laughing at The Theater Off Jackson’s annual comedy schmorgasborg. Sketchfest, the six-day comedy festival will feature international, national and local…

Smells Like Teen Spirit When All-teen Dance Crew Hits the Paramount Stage

All-teen dance roster brings a fresh look at culture through dance

Category: Arts + Events Articles   7/19 • A veritable world tour of ethnically and stylistically diverse dance performances, ranging from Asian cultural dances to tap, the 10th annual DANCE This… has one foot, so to speak, in tradition and the other in innovation. The all-teen, all local roster of performers, including Apna Bhangra Crew,…

Party Like You’re at the Oscars!

For the glamorous at heart, here's our roundup of the Oscar night celebrations in Seattle

Category: Arts + Events Articles   You don’t have to live in Hollywood to get your celebrity watchin’ fix. Get the thrill of seeing your favorite stars (on television) at local Oscar night parties. For the glamorous at heart, here’s our roundup of noteworthy Oscar celebrations: And, be sure to check our Arts+Culture blog this weekend to…

Scoop: Get Your Own Blueberries! U-Pick Blueberry Farms

Category: Eat + Drink Articles   Beat the blues by picking some of your own at one of the many blueberry farms within a peach stone’s throw of Seattle. July is peak season, and many of the berries are organic, so you’ll be able to eat copious amounts of them right out of your baskets…

Tilt-shift Q&A: See Seattle from a New Angle

This month we highlight the creativity and, um, small mindedness of tilt-shift photographers who mak

Category: Arts + Events Articles   This month we highlight the creativity and, um, small mindedness of tilt-shift photographers who make real-life landscapes look like scale models. We swapped emails with Erynn Rose, a Seattle photographer embracing this trend to find out more about this interesting photo genre. What is tilt-shift photography?Official tilt-shift photography is…

The Goods: In the Bag

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Category: Shopping + Fashion Articles   Local designers Rian and Julie Berry blend James Bond sophistication and Indiana Jones rustic utility in this over-the-shoulder men’s messenger bag. Marked with the sleek jet propeller insignia, the bag features smooth, vegetable-tanned leather and plenty of pockets to stash high-tech gadgets.  Photo by Tom Barwick