Join esoteric publisher William Kiesel for coffee and a presentation on Wunderkammern and Alchemy in the appropriately wonderful and odd surroundings of Ancient Grounds Cafe and art gallery in celebration of Obscura Day for Atlas Obscura. The Curiosity Cabinet was the forerunner of the contemporary museum. But before public museums existed worldly collections took the form [...]
Don’t miss this fabulous accordion shindig starring Jo Miller & Her Burly Roughnecks with squeezebox virtuoso Nova Devonie playing Western Swing and Rockabilly tunes for your dancing and listening enjoyment! It’s an entirely new squeezebox spectacular! The third installment of the popular accordion extravaganza features musicians from five cultural perspectives: rollicking Crotian dance music with Ted [...]
If you woke up hankerin’ for some chamber-style cowboy music, don’t miss this. Even if you didn’t, it promises to be a delightful evening– two performances, March 18th and 20th. “Contemporary Cowboy” is part of the Wayward Series put on by Splash!, a Seattle chamber group composed of Roger Nelson, piano, Janna Wächter, voice and special [...]
Join a Glimmer performer for a pre-show cocktail. Talk about dance and creativity. Talk about life. Talk about the weather. Anything goes. This opportunity is reserved for only 24 ticketholders per show (six per dancer). Get a group of friends together and shake up your regular pre-show routine. How it works: Call ACT once you’ve [...]
The amazing German Artistic Cycling Team will be performing 15-minute demonstrations at the Seattle Bicycle Expo this weekend, taking place at Smith Cove Cruise Terminal 91 located at 2001 W. Garfield St.. There will be 300 exhibitors related to bikes, gear, travel, health and fitness, plus a Kids’ Bike Zone that will have an assortment of [...]
"I would say the Big Blog was responsible for me becoming a journalist." That's the end quote of James Rainey's LA Times story this morning on the eP-I's first anniversary, and it seems to ...
There's something atavistic about the sound of a fax machine. The hum and whir is a retro token of life before the Internet, or its early days, like the old AOL dial-up tone. So it's fittin...
Today's blogs are wondering who's still stuck inside looking at their computer screens. - The Microsoft Blog says that when Bing's makers were looking for a color to display links in, they...
It isn't a shock that Vancouver Democrat Brian Baird would consider voting "no" on the health care reform bill currently before the House of Representatives. He's broken with the party bef...
When I saw Ulysses Dove performwith the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in the early 1970s, he was an odd presence in that wonderful but sober troupe. Cunningham?s dancers went about their business with a deadpan seriousness, even when they made you laugh, and their dancing was precise and...
When I read earlier this year that J.D. Salinger had died, I remembered Holden Caulfield, the alientated teenage narrator of his 1951 novel, The Catcher in the Rye, riding in a cab through Manhattan — a key literary image of my own adolescence (although of course the book's appeal lay not in...
The proposal to devote a chunk of the Seattle Center to a museum and shop for the works of glass artist Dale Chihuly has stirred quite a debate about the identity and future of Seattle Center — and a lot of political push and pull.
In some sense, ?Seattle Center? has always seemed a misnomer...
A Kelso man out walking his dog found a small black cylinder with a yellow and red stripe. The Cowlitz County sheriffs office says it turned out to be an undetonated Japanese mortar from the 1930s.