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Must List: Cinerama Reopens, Contemporary Dance Aplenty & More
What to do this weekend in Seattle
By Seattle magazine staff November 20, 2014
Must Make Reservations
10 Restaurants Serving Up Thanksgiving Dinner
Restaurants around Seattle are preparing Thanksgiving feasts for dine in and take out. Prix-fixe menus, buffets and smoked turkeys to-go give us plenty to be thankful for this year, but make your reservations, like, now.
Must Hear
David Bazan and Passenger String Quartet Perform
Friday (11/21, 9 p.m.) Seattle singer-songwriter David Bazan (of Pedro the Lion fame) and local string ensemble extraordinaire Passenger String Quartet make beautiful music together.
Must See
A Weekend Teeming with Contemporary Dance
Dance fans have to make some tough choices this weekend—do you see the funny dance memoir by Seattle’s Peggy Piacenza, the touching hip-hop-inflected piece by LA-based David Rousséve, or the intricate work of modern dance icon Tere O’Connor? We recommend going full-bore and hitting all three!
Must Ooh and Ahh
Cinerama Reopens Today
Thursday (11/20, 8 p.m.) At last! Cinerama celebrates its grand reopening—complete with a snazzy new exterior mural and technology upgrades galore—tonight at 8 p.m. with a screening of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1. Only a handful of seats are left for the taking, but relax, the beloved theater will be open evermore.
Must Shop
5 Shopping Events You Shouldn’t Miss
(Dates and times vary) Ready the plastic: A host of shopping adventures are happening this weekend and next, including the first-ever Seattle Collective at Melrose Market Studios and the Nordstrom Pop-in Gift & Go.
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Feeding Ghosts to Free Them
Artist Tessa Hulls creates a revealing graphic novel to help her deal with childhood trauma
Seattle artist Tessa Hulls’ new graphic novel Feeding Ghosts is a deeply stirring narrative of loss, mental illness, and intergenerational trauma. She says that she wrote it to answer this question: What broke my family? Much of the book is about repetition, and how three generations of women in Hulls’ family were emotionally crippled by
