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Jet City Improv Ventures into Gilbert & Sullivan Giddiness

Margaret Higginson — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 20:30:54 +0000

Add in improvised music, as Jet City Improv’s latest venture does, and you've got two things -- comedy and music -- where timing is of utmost importance, and if it doesn’t come together, it’s hard to salvage. For the most part, The Adventures of Gilbert & Sullivan! holds together.

Opera on Tap at the Blue Moon: Bringing Arias to the U-District’s Oldest Dive Bar

Dana Wen — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 00:39:37 +0000

Opera on Tap is a group of professional opera singers bringing classical music to unlikely venues around Seattle. On Monday night, the group teamed up with chamber music collective the Parnassus Project for a performance at historic U-District dive bar the Blue Moon.

Discover Seattle’s UW-to-SLU Mosquito Ferry

Guest Contributor — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 21:16:34 +0000

Run by the same people who bring you the Sunday Ice Cream Cruise ($11 adults) out of Lake Union Park, the new ferry is a great addition to our city’s transit options. Currently Seattle Mini-Ferry runs passengers back and forth from their UW dock at the foot of Brooklyn St. (near the Agua Verde kayak launch), on the hour, and the pier at South Lake Union Park, on the half hour.