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The X Factor

Xian Zhang Is Ushering the 123-Year-Old Seattle Symphony Into the Future of Classical Music

Purple Lemonade Collective

This Local Performance Troupe Radiates Joy and Ass-Shaking Confidence

Music

The X Factor

Xian Zhang Is Ushering the 123-Year-Old Seattle Symphony Into the Future of Classical Music

Chill Seekers

NYC Ambient Trio Purelink Maintain the Bliss

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Performance

Purple Lemonade Collective

This Local Performance Troupe Radiates Joy and Ass-Shaking Confidence

Playwright Keiko Green On Pulling Her Play from the Kennedy Center

“We have this opportunity to find an even more exciting path forward for the play.”

February Things to Do: Performance

The Best Theater, Dance, and Comedy Events Happening This Month 

The Heart Sellers Is Unfortunately Really Fucking Relevant Right Now

The Play About the Immigrant Experience Takes on a New Meaning in Trump’s America

Jinkx Monsoon and BenDeLaCreme Are Here To Sleigh 

Their Holiday Show Should Be Christmas Canon

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Film/TV

Jill Busby Is the Northwest Film Forum’s New Executive Director

Busby Shared Her Vision for Its Future with The Stranger

February Things to Do: Film

The Best Film Events and Screenings Happening This Month  

Everything Black, Everything Cosmic 

Kahlil Joseph’s BLKNWS Is the Most Beautiful Film of our Times

Drag Race Episode Four: Lights, Camera, Tension

This One's Got Bullies, Fainting, and One Disrespectful Camera Op

Culture

Did You Get a Stranger Valentine?

Hundreds of Readers Spilled Their Love Guts in Our Latest Issue

How to Date Like an Asian

We Gotta Get Those Asian Birth Rates Up

February Things to Do: This & That

The Best Culture and Community Events Happening This Month

Dear Hendrix

I Need to Tell You About Your Great-Grandparents and Their Damn Dentures

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Books

We Keep Each Other Alive

Ally Ang’s Debut Poetry Collection, Let the Moon Wobble, Is a Testament to Queer Power

February Things to Do: Literature

The Best Talks and Readings Happening This Month 

What I Learned About the Future at Seattle WorldCon

In August, I hung out with a bunch of fantasy and science fiction authors to imagine a world worth fighting for

My Top 3 Books of 2025

Of the 70 Books I Read This Year, These Spoke to Me Directly

The Five Best Underread PNW Authors of 2025

Plus Five Bonus Books You Also Gotta Read

Visual Art

February Things to Do: Visual Art

The Best Art Shows and Events Happening This Month  

The El Rey Has Been Saved! What's Next?

Common AREA Maintenance Is Making Plans for Artist Housing and a Cultural Space

Hacking the Met

How Indigenous Artists Smuggled Their Stories Into One of the Biggest Art Institutions in the World

Mythic Currents

Priscilla Dobler Dzul’s Cosmology Flows From Cenote to Sound 

Field of Beams 

Kelsey Fernkopf’s Awe-Inspiring Big Neon

Food and Drink

February Things to Do: Food

The Best Food & Drink Events Happening This Month  

The Virginia Inn Has New Owners—the Stolen Historic Sign Is Back Up, Too

Four Longtime Employees Have Purchased the 122-Year-Old Bar and Restaurant

“Are You Going to Eat That Pickle on Your Plate?”

Imagine a Restaurant that Allows Other Diners to Eat Your Leftovers

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“We have this opportunity to find an even more exciting path forward for the play.”