Disney and Marvel Studios’ “The Avengers,” based off the Marvel comic series, raked in a whopping $200.3 million last weekend upon its eagerly anticipated release in over 4,000 U.S. theaters. Never has two hours of good-natured, superhuman walloping been so gratifying.
Just about an hour Northwest of Seattle lays Orcas Island. Known as a relaxing getaway, it has also gained a quiet following of music lovers who show up for Doe Bay Festival at Doe Bay Resort, a small and intimate music festival that has grown into an icon in the Northwest.
As of almost a month ago, music lovers under the age of 21 will be able to attend more shows at one of the most famous venues in the city. The Crocodile has recently announced that it will now have most of its shows to be open to an all-ages audience.
Last week, Vogue announced they will no longer book models under the age of 16 or that are suspected of having eating disorders.
This year, four students from Seattle University had a chance to showcase their work among 220 films at NFFTY, which took place from April 26 to 29 at the Seattle Cinerama, the SIFF Cinema at the Uptown on Queen Anne, and at the Future of Film Expo in the Seattle Center Exhibition Hall.
Thursday saw the opening of the new Seattle University’s Vachon Gallery, which is themed Design Space in order to encompass the diverse talents and interests of the participants.
Every Sunday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., a variety of local farmers pack up their trucks and head to the Broadway farmers’ market located on the Seattle Central Community College campus. A variety of produce is sold, from flowers and crafts to meat and eggs. All of the sellers are local and they all have a unique product to share.
With a sold-out album release party two weeks ago and a third Capitol Hill Block Party performance on the way, the Absolute Monarchs are loud and proud with or without their amps.
The e-book revolution has meant that books are much more widely accessible than ever before and, in fact, Americans are reading more.
On Tuesday April 24, the lineup for Capitol Hill Block Party (CHBP) was released to the public. From July 20 to July 22, people throughout Capitol Hill will have the chance to see both local and major acts, such as Neko Case, Youth Lagoon and NUDE.
A labyrinth is a maze. A convoluted or intricate situation, a pre-set path for a meditative walk, or the anatomy of the inner ear. This explanation describes the theme of the new edition of Fragments, an annual literature and visual arts magazine published by and for Seattle University students.
This Friday, burgeoning filmmakers will gather to celebrate one of the arts’ most coveted forms in an evening of creative competition. This is not Sundance. This is not Cannes. This is the inaugural Seattle University Film Festival.
If it’s art, and it’s on campus, chances are it had something to do with either Ann Wyckoff and Betty Hedreen, two of the campus’ most valuable arts leaders
Art students at Seattle University have the chance to show off their work to their peers at one of the biggest venues on campus.
But this show isn’t just for art students.
Three visual art films. Three DJs. One crazy, fun night on the dance floor. At least, that’s the hope of junior Alexander Tsway, the student behind 3 X 3.
Of the 25,000 homeless individuals in Washington state, nearly half are families.
If there is anything to be learned from the past couple years of comics adaptations and press coverage, it’s that independent comics are wildly gaining in popularity.
When junior Alexander Tsway’s love of photography expanded into an interest in filmmaking after taking a course last year, he decided to give it a go.
With one step inside an office space full of art, people are immediately taken up the stairs to a studio filled with canvases clinging to the walls and laid on the ground. Law alumni co-opens new art gallery on the Hill
Capitol Hill Housing’s 12th Avenue Arts project will be transforming the empty 29,000 square foot parking lot on 12th into a large multi-use building.
The 1930s brought Americans an invention that changed life at home as they knew it — a box with moving pictures that quickly filled living rooms across the country. Eighty years later, it looks like television’s reign as an entertainment centerpiece may be coming to an end.
Instagram, a social-network-meets-photo-editing app that was released in October 2010, encourages and perpetuates social-media sharing. And now, it’s under the Facebook umbrella.
The creatures created by Stacey Rozich are unlike anything you have ever seen. Her latest exhibit is full of these dream creatures and it is her last show ever at the Flatcolor Gallery.
KSUB, Seattle University’s radio station, is looking forward to one of its largest events of the year: The Garden Party.
Living in a city like Seattle has many advantages: extensive public transportation, loads of resources and hundreds of thousands of people. Yet, for some families, getting by is a constant struggle because of one factor in particular: homelessness.
On Friday, March 30, Christopher Hoff passed away in his home due to heart failure. That day, the city lost something special.
Teen pregnancy is down to its lowest rate since 1946, presumably due to increased access to comprehensive sex education and birth control, but college students still have questions about sex. Well, Seattle’s most popular relationship columnist has answers – some of the time.
Colleen Fontana interviews Joe McDonnell, the creator of Seattle University's new ice cube sculpture.
“The Hunger Games” has proven to be a cross-demographic hit and seems to be engaged in the issues faced by today's youth.
The scene at Emerald City Comicon on Saturday was unprecedented. For the first time in ten years, Comicon reached the convention center's full capacity.
The exterior of the Pine Box, lower Capital Hill’s newest beer hall, doesn’t look like a drinking establishment. Yet, The Pine Box has quite an extensive beer collection.
Pie. Ice cream. Cupcakes. Is there a dessert that Capitol Hill hasn’t mastered yet? It turns out there is, and gelatiere Marco D’Ambrosio is trying to change that.
SEAC put on what it called "Jungle Jam 2012," presenting Seattle University's student body with seven bands composed of current Seattle U students
Seattle University's own goof-rockers Feet prepared to go on stage at the Sky Church at EMP for the Northwest's largest underage battle of the bands, Sound Off!
In a small corner of the Tashiro Kaplan Gallery, people stop to gaze at the colorful tile pieces that cling to the walls.
Moe Bar and Pike Street Fish Fry will soon be welcoming a new member to their team of businesses.
As a traveling salesman, Peter Gottberg roamed the world in search of new frontiers.
Ambulance Bianca Sewake Staff Writer Beginning with an audience of five people in 2008 — some of which were their own parents — the band Ambulance has since drawn a larger fan base. Ambulance is made up of Seattle U's Spencer Miller (bass, background vocals) and his friends Sam Peterson (lead vocals, guitar) and Dillon Christopher (drums).
It is these sensory connections that artist Susie J. Lee is highlighting in her exhibit "Susie J. Lee: Of Breath and Rain" at the Frye Art Museum.
Directors, stars, the year's best films and a fabulous awards ceremony. No, this isn't the Oscars. This is the Seattle University Film Festival,
Automatic weapons, the sound of helicopters in the background, and a condom all indicated that Seattle University's production of "Hamlet" had left the Shakespearian era behind.
You know that terrible feeling you get when you have a cramp in your calf and the pain remains no matter how much you shake and adjust the throbbing limb?
On Sunday, M.I.A. briefly flipped the bird on the live television broadcast of Superbowl XLVI
SEAC's Battle of the Bands is just around the corner, with applications due at 7 p.m. this Friday.
When Seattle University professor Carol Wolfe Clay opened up the "Seattle Times" per the suggestion of a friend, she was surprised to see her name.
The lineup was announced at the Sasquatch Launch Party at the Neptune on Thursday, Feb. 2
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"The Grey" was an entertaining way to spend two hours.
SOPA's reach would extend far beyond the closure of piracy sites.
If Taylor Bolibol's high school friends heard she was performing a show at least once a month, sometimes twice, they wouldn't believe it.
It takes guts to compete against the popular Pike Street Fish Fry. But a new establishment on Broadway, Five Fish Bistro, has accepted this challenge.
Mad Dawg opened last July on Mercer Street and has become a popular place among the Queen Anne community.
The creative energy was palpable in the recording studio of the Fine Arts building.
End of the Mayan calendar by Katie Gilbert The pictures of the big round calendar all over the Internet say the same thing: the world is going to end. The Mayans have predicted it. All of Earth's beings have just 11 months to live it up before the world crashes down around us.
The project is slated to be completed fall of 2014 with the help of the entire Seattle community.
Cal Anderson to play holiday host to new ice rink
Marksmanship Club teaches gun usage, safety
Wilde's play earns laughs and approval from Lee Center audiences
Seattle may need to adopt New York City's motto of "The City That Never Sleeps" if Resolution 31308 is passed.
For Fall Ball this year, SEAC decided to keep things classy and elegant by not only hosting Fall Ball at the SAM
The first Wednesday of every month at 6 p.m., people gather in the Sorrento Hotel and they don't talk to each other.
Fragments is going on its 54th year in print, but things are a little different than they have been in recent years.
IQ84's beauty lies in Murakami's remarkable talent to combine the mundane with the surreal in an undeniably elegant style.
A restaurant can be as pretty as it wants, but the food needs to back it up. Unfortunately, Capitol Hill's new Chinese restaurant Bako is more about looks than substance.
Quit missing out on the artsy-fartsy fun and get your neo-dada derriere over to the ID this Thursday.
The Spectator cares about your hair, so we subjected our heads to Capitol Hill's salons to protect yours from ne'er-do-wells, and ranked them on our scale.
They have done number 59, "Ask out the girl of your dreams," and number 27, "Go to a rock concert all in leather." And their next stop is Seattle University.
KSUB is Seattle University's own radio station, broadcasting the shows of student DJs every day across the world from the basement of Campion.
Blue Man Group's longevity—the group has been performing since 1987—may be due to the timeless quality of their messy gimmicks
Artists explore capitalism, socialism and terrorism
Watching little world is like living inside the head of your favorite kooky grandma.
ArtsideOut, Seattle University's student art club, is making a few changes this year. The first item on the agenda is to let the student body know that everyone is invited to its events, even those who feel like they don't know jack about art.
Mackenzie Clay's thoughts on his mom's work in "little world."
The dark charm of SU's new artist-in-residence
To close out the year for SEAC Coffee Haus series, Capitol Hill's own Campfire OK will be folk-rocking the Student Center Hearth tonight at 8 p.m.
At Skillet Diner, the brand new brick and mortar offshoot of city-renowned Skillet Street Food, love is in the details.
For the next two weeks, Seattle University's Vachon Gallery will be home to the BFA Photography exhibit
The Spectator takes a look at more of our fine Fine Arts Professors showing at the Kinsey Gallery
The exhibit, featuring various forms of multimedia art created by staff, is on display at the Vachon Gallery.
Recently, actors took their last bow at the Intiman Theatre until the next season in 2012.
Volker Bertelmann is a pianist, but before that, he was a hip-hop star.
The almost year-long endeavor, created by co-curators Whitney Ford-Terry and Jessica Powers, uses the house systems model as the basis for a variety of smaller systems, all revolving around various forms of community.
Currently, the U Crew's "Break It Down" is far outstripping their competition in College Battle of the Bands.
It took guitarist Ben Watts and bassist Adrian Kirn a month to convince Colleen Clement to sing with them.
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