Category Archives: Arts+Entertainment

Arts+Entertainment By Kelly Darrah on April 16, 2012

Meet the dancers behind your favorite performances during this backstage event. As if the Pacific Northwest Ballet’s (PNB) performance of “Apollo & Carmina” this spring wasn’t enough to satiate your love of dance, they are also throwing an after party to get you moving all night long. Apollo’s After Party immediately follows the ballet, keeping the dancers on their toes while you mingle with the town’s finest. (more…)

Photo by Hugo Ludeña of Hugo Fotografía.

Arts+Entertainment By Kelly Darrah on April 16, 2012

Be in the Know: Bailadores de Bronce’s 40th Anniversary Gala

Learn about Mexican culture through mesmerizing choreography and costumes. Bailadores de Bronce (Bronze Dancers) is a group that teaches and performs Mexican folkloric dances in the Pacific Northwest. As they enter their 40th year of entertaining our region, the group decided to celebrate by doing what they do best—dance! (more…)

Arts+Entertainment By Ian Dinsmore on April 13, 2012

In Technicolor: “The Cabin in the Woods”

Whedon & Goddard flip the horror genre on its ear. Hollywood horror conventions are as American as apple pie. The backwoods hillbillies, the creaky gas station with questionable employees and the naïve college students getting away for the weekend are so familiar most of us could write the script ourselves. It’s apparent from the outset of The Cabin in the Woods that co-writers Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard have equal parts (more…)

Arts+Entertainment By Sara Lake on April 9, 2012

What’s Hot: Counting Crows

Flashback to the 90′s with the vibrant sounds of this eclectic band. Spanning over ten years, the Counting Crows’ dynamic sounds and brilliant lyrics have created the perfect soundtrack to the American life. (more…)

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Arts+Entertainment By Ian Dinsmore on April 6, 2012

In Technicolor: “American Reunion”

Serving a heaping slice of nostalgia. Since it’s release in 1999 it’s hard to fathom that the now infamous boy-on-pie original would launch a $1 billion franchise, 4 straight-to-DVD knockoffs and a countless number of imitators, but that is precisely what American Pie did. So it stands to reason that Universal would go back to the well for one last hurrah. What they’ve baked (pie joke) is American Reunion: a surprisingly charming and funny jaunt to the past. (more…)

Arts+Entertainment By Kara Tiernan on April 5, 2012

Music Madness: Miike Snow

The Swedes invade Seattle and unleash the animal. Check ‘em Out: Who is Miike Snow? DJ. Electronica. Wizard. Jackolope. Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg, two Swedish dudes hooked on creating beats teamed up with American Andrew Watts back in 2000 to work on someone else’s pop album. Evidently this spawned a lasting friendship that would develop into the elusive birth of Miike Snow in 2007. (more…)

Arts+Entertainment By Corinne Whiting on April 3, 2012

Culture Dose: Q&A With Author Christopher Zara

Getting the inside scoop on his new book “Tortured Artists.” In his recent released book, Christopher Zara profiles 48 of “the most obsessive, neurotic, depressed and despondent creative figures in history.” The artists range from Charles Schulz to Charlie Parker, Michelangelo to Madonna, Andy Warhol to Amy Winehouse. (more…)