Pioneer Square's First Thursday has been the city's monthly gallery night for decades. Galleries, studios and a handful of other venues in the old brick blocks open their doors in the evening for new shows and openings, and the whole thing is free and self-guided. Pick up a free parking voucher at any participating gallery […]
Tacoma Art Museum stays open until 8 p.m. on Thursdays, and admission is free from 5 o'clock on. That's three hours to see Northwest and Western art in the Haub Family Collection, the Kent Monkman and Grafton Tyler Brown pairing before it closes Jan. 3, and the new Internet Speed show from Nov. 21. The […]
Since 1986, Pearl District galleries have kept their doors open late on the first Thursday of the month for openings, receptions and a chance to meet the artists. The walk clusters in the blocks around NW 9th Avenue between Burnside and Glisan, and it's a low-key way to see what Portland artists are making this […]
Lan Su's chrysanthemum festival opens with four evenings in Old Town's walled garden, lit by lanterns and lined with roughly 81 varieties of mums, including cascading waterfall displays from the horticulture team. Eighteen local floral artists and featured designer Toni Tibbits interpret this year's theme, Golden Blooms Upon Autumn Waters, and you can vote for […]
Lakewood Theatre Company, now in its 74th season, stages the Irving Berlin musical about two song-and-dance men, a sister act and a Vermont inn that needs rescuing. Expect the title song, big tap numbers and a stage full of snow. Directed by Don Alder, it runs six weeks from early November to just before Christmas […]
The season's first big indoor gift market fills two halls of the Expo Center in North Portland the weekend of November 6. Local artisans and small brands sell handmade goods, gifts and treats, with holiday entertainment and food to keep you going between aisles. It's an early start on the list, well before the December […]
Portland Opera opens its season's big stage with Verdi's La Traviata, the story of Violetta, a woman who chooses love and her own terms over polite society's verdict, and pays for it. It's one of the most beloved operas ever written, packed with tunes you'll recognize, and an ideal first opera if you've been meaning […]
A Saturday market on NE Hancock between 44th and 45th in Northeast Portland's Hollywood district. It keeps its weekly schedule right up to December 19, which makes it one of the more dependable east-side stops for the supporting cast of a Thanksgiving turkey or a few last-minute edible gifts. After the holidays it shifts to […]
Beaverton's Saturday market wraps its main season on November 21, filling the west lot of the Beaverton City Library on SW Hall Boulevard between 3rd and 5th. The last three Saturdays bring the late-fall Tualatin Valley harvest to the table, along with the bakers and food makers people lean on for Thanksgiving week. Morning hours […]
Every Saturday, year-round, farmers take over University Way NE between 50th and 52nd, two blocks from the U District light rail station. Winter is the season for squash, roots, apples and hardy greens, and the market's chef demo series keeps going into December: the Husky Culinary Club on Nov. 7, Anna of Yoka Miso on […]
The Edmonds Historical Museum's street market moves into holiday mode on six Saturdays in November and December, filling 5th Avenue North and Bell Street just outside the old Carnegie library building that houses the museum. Farmers, bakers and specialty food producers set up next to artisans selling handcrafted gifts and artwork, and holiday greenery is […]
Tacoma's only year-round farmers market sets up every Saturday in the Proctor District through Dec. 19. Shoppers come from across the city for local vegetables and flowers, meat and seafood, artisan foods, beer and cider, and prepared food, usually with a local musician playing and plenty of dogs to watch. The surrounding blocks are full […]
