Nobody 2: Twice the Carnage, but Not Enough
There is a scene in Timo Tjahjanto’s The Big 4—his Netflix-backed 2022 action comedy/abattoir—that gives you all you need to know about the Indonesian filmmaker...
The Best Film I’ve Seen in 2025 Is About a Mixed Martial Arts Fighter?
Drowning Dry, a film by Lithuanian director Laurynas Bareiša, begins in the middle of a mixed martial arts competition. It's brutal. It's savage. It's...
Seattle’s Biggest Contemporary Art Center Ever Opens This Friday
There are sparks of a renaissance happening in Seattle’s downtown corridor right now; murals are creeping in, live painting fills the parks, and enterprises...
Are Seattle’s Arsonists High on Pyro?
Everywhere I look, I see Octavia Butler. For example, not too long ago, a prominent funeral home in my part of town, Columbia City,...
Fire at Ballard Collective Burns Businesses, Studios, and Gallery
Graham Franciose, owner of Get Nice Gallery at the Ballard Collective, says the fire that destroyed his gallery Friday night started in the dumpster...
MoPOP Meets Dirty South Feminism
Walking into the Museum of Pop Culture’s latest exhibition, Never Turn Back: Echoes of African American Music, you’re met with sound—intentional and stirring. The...
All Roads Lead to Den Fest
Photos by Brittne Lunniss Kay Redden, Ballard’s unofficial mayor, knows how to gather. Whether she’s rounding up records at Sonic Boom, taking song requests...
One Hardcore Night in Little Saigon
Seattle is a city that thrives on juxtapositions. So when I found myself at a hardcore rock show late one night, comprising mostly Asian-led...
Re-finding My Religion
For many years, I believed I was a hardcore atheist. I came out about this soon after my father, a theologian trained at the...
August Things to Do: This & That
Want more? Here's everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food, This & That. Flock Fiber Festival Aug 8–10 As...
