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Totally Unofficial Guide to Vancouver Pride
What’s a Northwesterner to do to find another weekend of celebrations and LGBTQ parties to live up to June’s Pride mayhem? Vancouver Pride is your answer, with a huge array of parties and events to rival any other major city.
Highs and Lows of CHBP 2016
The 20th annual incarnation of the beloved/ horrific (depending on who you ask) neighborhood music festival lit up the Pike-Pine corridor this weekend, and Jetspace Magazine was there to see it all.
Basement Theatrics’ Spring Awakening: Stormy With A Chance Of Clear Skies
Spring Awakening is a hot ticket. The latest revival by Deaf West Theatre earned several Tony nominations. In Seattle, we’ve had a touring production and a more recent, well-received production by the dearly missed Balagan Theatre. Spring Awakening’s mix of 19th-century setting, lyrical, antiquated-style text and a contemporary pop score by singer-songwriter Duncan Sheik has captivated audiences since its Broadway debut in 2006 starring Lea Michele and Jonathan Groff. How does new-kid-on-the-block theatre company Basement Theatrics’ production fare?
Watch This: The Clompers And The Ghost of Waldo
Some people claim to see ghosts all the time. The closest I’ve seen to a ghost was probably purely the product of a rap-video quantity of bong hits.
Play Your Best Hand, but Don’t Play With Yourself
Some of you kinksters may be familiar with the idea of orgasm denial, or edging, trying to keep from orgasm as long as possible. Well, a German team of game developers have created a game simulating just that.
Barf-core Prom Queens: Here Comes Mommy Long Legs
Goopy, glittering, and riotously fun, local punk outfit Mommy Long Legs will blow your face off. With songs that run the gamut from yuppie moms to chic, undead parties, the band is a raucous, irreverent delight, and one of the best bands in Seattle.
Critical Condition: Musical Comedy, Mirth, and Mayhem
The sum of A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder’s parts is a pirate’s treasure indeed. If you are dying to laugh your head off, don’t miss this one!
Spring Re-Awakening: Jayne Hubbard and Michael Krenning
Spring Awakening is back in Seattle. The hit 2006 musical by Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik is the winner of seven 2007 Tony’s, including Best Musical, and the recent Deaf West production received multiple Tony nominations a few weeks back. The show has played Seattle...
Watch This: Panic at the Ikea
Occasionally my mom calls me from Ikea wordlessly screaming. I always know where she is, because it’s very specific—the combination of a stage-whispered scream that implies respect for fellow shoppers, and the kind of awful scream in nightmares where your sleeping lungs refuse you full volume.
The Heartbreak and Tragedy of Mental Illness: While The City Slept
While the City Slept is an important work, poignantly illustrating the fragility and vulnerability of human life, while acknowledging that beauty and love can shine in the face of tragedy.
Totally Unofficial Guide to Capitol Hill Block Party
In case you live under a rock, Capitol Hill Block Party is a few short weeks away. If you actually live under a rock, let me know what your rent is like and if there are any vacancies.
The Devil and Caitlin Frances
Caitlin M. Frances is a long-time veteran of the Puget Sound entertainment scene. Catilin has served the theater community as an Actress, Director, Teacher and Theater Manager for more than 25 years.
Finding Love At The Double Header
I first visited The Double Header shortly after moving to the International District in 2014. I explored the ID and Pioneer Square as often as school and work would allow, searching for the oldest existing bars with the cheapest existing whiskey—Joe’s, The Central Saloon, and Fort St. George were favorites.
Lisa Prank: Antidote To Rational Adulthood
It’s hard to be a teen. No generational group receives quite as much bad press as teenagers. They’re derided as impulsive, dramatic, petty, pretentious, reckless, and shallow. As an experiment, I typed news about teenagers into Google. Here are a sample of the results that came up on the first page:
John Lehrack Paves a New Yellow Brick Road for Dorothy’s
Seattle needs a fantastic piano bar, cabaret, performance venue. Sadly missed are places like Thumpers, an older skewing gay bar and restaurant on the hill, and Sorry Charlie’s, a Queen Anne institution for show goers and performers. Enter John Lehrack, a musical director, choir conductor, and music instructor. Like those of us in the gay community looking for a sing along piano bar, John has had a dream of opening such a place: Dorothy’s.