Festival

CroatiaFest at the Seattle Center on Sunday, October 4

by Maria Christensen
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The sheer number of free, cheap and really cheap entertainment options in Seattle is staggering when you stop to think about it, and the Seattle Center has always been a great venue option for the budget conscious. In particular, the Festál series of free festivals is a fine example of free fun (and alliteration).
This weekend, [...]

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Art

Brookhaven Arts Festival: Come see Maria-Louise Coil!

by Carrie Neal Walden

Local artist and Atlanta native Maria-Louise Coil will be the featured artist at the 2009 Brookhaven Arts Festival, October 17-18th.
Maria-Louise’s work is primarily “Southern” and “Atlantan” in focus, with an emphasis on road-side images and signs, and all the things that dot our local everyday scenery. Using a muted pallet on textured surfaces, she brings [...]

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Seattle

Decibel Festival 2008: A Review, A Reawakening

by Shilo Urban

WOW, WOW, WOW. What a weekend. What a swirling mess of art, what an epic adventure in electronica, what a bad-ass dance festival, what an fantastic experience to have shared with friends. I had one of the best weekends of my life, and yall know I have a hell of a lot of great weekends.
Seattle [...]

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Seattle

The 206 is PREFUNKED and ready for Decibel Festival 2008!

by Shilo Urban

I returned to Seattle Sunday night around 8PM from three days of camping, dancing, partying in tents and jamming out to sick electronic music like next week was Armageddon, going on about three hours of sleep with a car and a face full of sand, sunburned shoulders, river hair, a pack full of wet clothes [...]

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Seattle

REVERBFEST HITS BALLARD- Support Your Local Artists!

by Shilo Urban

Seattle Weekly’s annual local music festival REVERBFest hits Ballard like a guitar smashing down on stage, scattering its glistening goodness to all around. From the Bit Saloon to Mr. Spot’s Chai House you will find Seattle’s hottest artists as well as up-and-coming musicians pouring their souls out all over the neighborhood, and you can get [...]

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Seattle

Texas Chainsaw Pumpkin Carving at Fremont Oktoberfest

by cpierard

The Fremont Oktoberfest is going to be off the hook this weekend. If the Buxom Beer Garden, Miss Buxom Contest, BMX stunt riders, bratwursts and free music aren’t enough to get you excited; I’m sure the Texas Chainsaw Pumpkin Carving Contest will. I was fortunate enough to catch a sneak peek at it [...]

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