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1 Valentine's Day is like a box of chocolates — who knows what you'll find on stage? Arts
" For singles only, they insist. Varying times Wednesday-Sunday, Copper Gate Bar, 6301 24th Ave. N.W., Seattle; for ages 21 and over; $20 (800-838-3006 or www.brownpapertickets.com).
2/9/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
2 Seattle is first U.S. stop for Picasso exhibit Arts
When the Musée National Picasso, Paris, closed its doors in August for a $28 million renovation, the scoop was that its 5,000 artworks by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) would be locked away for more than two years.
2/9/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
3 Your survival guide to Olympic festivities Sports
If you're headed to the Winter Olympics in British Columbia — or considering a last-minute trip, even just a day trip to join the fun — you don't need to spend a huge sum of money or get stuck in long lines.
2/7/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
4 'Ordinary Thunderstorms': a climatologist hip-deep in trouble Arts
William Boyd's "The New Confessions" (1988) and "Any Human Heart" (2002) offer near-irrefutable proof that he's one of the best British novelists at work today. "Ordinary Thunderstorms," however, suggests his fiction-writing efforts can be bewilderingly uneven.
2/6/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
5 Cedars: A tasty trip to the Middle East and the '70s Entertainment
Cedars, on Northeast 43rd Street in the University District, first opened in 1974 and bills itself as the oldest Middle Eastern restaurant in Seattle. It moved to its present hole-in-the-wall location — with takeout window — in 1976.
2/4/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
6 Seattle Symphony announces 2010-11 season lineup Arts
Highlights include a two-night celebration of local composer Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000), new Rush Hour concerts and a multimedia "Beyond the Score" series. Big Names — cellist Yo-Yo Ma, pianist Lang Lang, violinist Itzhak Perlman — will add luster to Benaroya Hall's concert stage.
2/3/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
7 'The Privileges': Criminality and charity among the super-rich Arts
"The Privileges," Dee's fifth book, again blends social commentary with psychological exploration — this time, of family dynamics in the New York mega-wealth set. It's a curious, baffling book.
1/30/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
8 Review: SDP hasn't broken free of ballet's constraints just yet Arts
Seattle Dance Project is a curious beast. It's a troupe of veteran dancers whose artistic directors, Timothy Lynch and Julie Tobiason, both with strong Pacific Northwest Ballet backgrounds, have been vocal about wanting to break away from ballet convention and forge something new.
1/30/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
9 Review: Grupo de Rua dancers hold nothing back Arts
The dancers' arms don't sweep. They swipe — as if they'd like to rip something open. Their lifts aren't lifts, but hurls — without much care for where the body being jettisoned lands. And their radiating sweat is an olfactory stage effect unto itself.
1/29/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
10 'Facing Mars' exhibit tests your readiness for space Arts
The first involves personal inclination: Which planet would you rather be on? Visitors vote their preference by choosing between "Earth" and "Mars" gates as they enter the exhibit. (At the exit, after you've seen the displays, you can vote on the question again.)
1/28/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
11 Review: Film illustrates obstacles, triumphs of mission to Mars Entertainment
So says one of the scientists in "Roving Mars" as he recalls the difficulties he and his colleagues at NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory faced in readying two Mars "rovers," Spirit and Opportunity, for their journey to Mars.
1/28/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
12 Review: Wing Luke exhibit pushes video's boundaries all over the place Arts
Enter the compact rooms of the Wing Luke Asian Museum's George Tsutakawa Art Gallery and you'll find yourself inside a maze of playful, disorienting sight-and-sound impressions. Hypnotic chants compete with tunes cranked out on a music box.
1/28/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
13 Guitarist Nicolella ranges widely, from delicate classical to edgy modern Arts
Nicolella, who started teaching at Cornish College of the Arts this past fall, has infiltrated the Seattle music scene on a number of fronts in recent years, performing with Cuban music ensemble Charanga Danzon, chamber group Simple Measures, the Northwest Symphony Orchestra and other outfits.
1/27/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
14 'Project 3,' choreographer Edwaard Liang's new work, on stage at ACT Arts
"It needs to be a little more daring," choreographer Edwaard Liang tells his dancers calmly but firmly. "Do what you have to do to push the boundaries for yourself."
1/26/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
15 Alston dancers stick to their hallmarks — pleasing patterns, light action Arts
These are the hallmarks of Britain's Richard Alston Dance Company. What's missing are the moments of awe and the wild-card moves that turn expectations inside out. The evening's three pieces — all by Alston — are set to music by Stravinsky, Philip Glass and Hoagy Carmichael.
1/22/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
16 Cairo Gallery to end visual-arts exhibits Arts
Changes are afoot at Capitol Hill's Cairo Gallery, a showcase for "visual arts, design, performance, sound, film, and artist-in-residence opportunities" that opened two years ago.
1/22/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
17 'Mostly Nordic' series opens with Norwegian pianist's elegant sounds Arts
Jensen, 28, will present an all-Norwegian "lecture-recital," including short works by the country's most famous composer, Edvard Grieg, and an old staple of "favorite piano music" anthologies, Christian Sinding's "Rustle of Spring."
1/21/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
18 Review: Whim W'Him's full-length debut is a breathtaking evening of dance Entertainment
I would say do anything you can — cash in your life insurance, pawn your children, whatever it takes — to grab a ticket to "3Seasons," the first full-length evening of work by Olivier Wevers and his new dance company, Whim W'Him. But there's little point.
1/16/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
19 Clown performances are quirky, charming, funny — not a Bozo in sight Entertainment
It has something to do with his lively eyes and his herky-jerky wave hello at all newcomers. But it's evident, too, in the fit of his trousers. Their waistline rises mid-torso high, making him weirdly squat on top while his legs look gigantic.
1/15/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
20 'Warship Under Sail': a sloop of war on a hard-edged Northwestern frontier Arts
On Oct. 4, 1855, a U.S. Navy sloop of war, the Decatur, sailed into Elliott Bay to defend Washington Territory against attacks by "Northern Indians." By late January, a conflict, dubbed "The Battle of Seattle," took place that went down in local annals as strictly a settlers-vs.-Indians affair.
1/14/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results