Seattle events
Six the Musical with Broadway in Seattle and why you should see it when it heads to your town
May 13, 2025The first time I saw Six the Musical I didn’t give it a fair chance. It was on the same night Taylor Swift was in the city and I did not have tickets to Taylor Swift. And nothing else should be playing in any city on a night Taylor Swift is in town. Fast forward […]
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Maybe the most peaceful oasis in Seattle Center is the Bar at Chihuly Garden and Glass
May 8, 2025I often forget to tell people to go to the Chihuly Garden and Glass at Seattle Center. It’s a really gorgeous museum but it’s also a little spendy (and it doesn’t take a whole lot of time to visit) so it’s hard to put on a must see list. But it really should be. Dale […]
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Life of Pi with Broadway in Seattle and beyond
April 18, 2025I don’t know why I thought that Life of Pi would be a one person play. And I really meant to re-read the novel before I went to the media night for Life of Pi with Broadway in Seattle this past week. But of course, life gets in the way of things like this, and […]
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Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon: the Super Live touring Seattle and beyond on a 21 city US tour
March 14, 2025I just got off a virtual press junket for Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon: The Super Live touring the USA from now until April 26 when it ends in New York. Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon: The Super Live will be in Seattle too on March 25-26 and it’s one of the only stops that gets two shows. Sailor […]
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When you spend the day at SEA (Seatac airport) and don’t even go anywhere and it’s awesome
February 20, 2025I am often invited to SEA (our airport formerly known as SeaTac and still kind of known as SeaTac but it’s moving towards SEA now) for events because of the blog and instagram and the other day my son and I went for the opening of the last new N concourse shops and restaurants but […]
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The Last 5 years and going to a play at the ACT theatre in Seattle
February 14, 2025Theatre has such an interesting unspoken contract that we don’t seem to have anywhere else anymore. Without explicit instructions, we know to find our seats and tuck ourselves carefully into place without jostling the chairs around us all the while clutching jackets, handbags, and programs quietly into our laps. When the lights darken we grow […]
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Broadway in Seattle 2025/2026 season musical list (and who else is so excited about the Notebook?)
February 2, 2025I still remember when the Notebook was the opening night movie for SIFF at a fancy theatre downtown and I had no idea I would cry my eyes out and neither did the group of mascara stained ladies I met in the bathroom at intermission either. So I practically squealed when I saw that the […]
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Behind the scenes with Cirque Du Soleil Kooza Seattle (at Marymoor Park)
January 26, 2025Just an FYI before you go, Cirque De Soleil Kooza Seattle is not totally in Seattle but in Redmond about 30-ish minutes away (or more) depending on traffic. Also, know before you go that there is a $25 parking fee that can be paid by card or cash and really no other place to park […]
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The Back to the Future Musical at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle
December 12, 2024Did you love the Back to the Future movie in the 80’s as a kid? And then of course there was the Back to the Future sequel and maybe there were even more but I’m not too sure-everything in that era ended up with at least a Part 2. But we first saw signs for […]
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Wicked the Musical in Seattle
November 10, 2024If you ever needed a reason to go and see a musical surrounded by people in a theatre and feel hopeful, maybe it’s now and Wicked the Musical in Seattle is the one you want to see. Wicked the Musical is in Seattle until December 1st at the Paramount Theatre and it’s here for multiple […]
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If you go to Japan in August you might need waterproof hiking shoes
September 20, 2024Sometimes there are things you don’t always think about needing on a trip when you go to a place with weather vastly different from where you are coming from. On a recent trip to Japan in August my family found out about the typhoon season and how summer rain there can literally come out of […]
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Transformers One: an Interview with Chris Hemsworth and Brian Tyree Henry
September 16, 2024Childhood me who just-a-million-times-more-than-a-teeny-bit wanted to be a reporter one day would have screamed a little if I told her I interviewed Optimus Prime and Megatron this afternoon. And I even got to chat with the two of them in the same room not trying to kill each other. It feels like so many of […]
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An interview with Hannah Shankman who is Fanny Brice in the Funny Girl musical coming to Seattle and then all across America
September 12, 2024*just an update* I went to the opening night in Seattle (September 24th) and Hannah’s Fanny Brice was incredible! She literally becomes Fanny Brice: her vocal range is phenomenal, she is hilarious and endearing, the costumes are sensational and this Funny Girl is the type of musical you want to see if you love musicals […]
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Poutine is on the menu at Seattle Kraken hockey games this year
September 6, 2024I was invited to Climate Pledge Arena for the media preview of the food scene for this year’s Seattle Kraken season. It’s year four for the Kraken at Climate Pledge Arena and of course my family is very excited about hockey-the first game we ever went to was in December of 2021. Coming from Canada, […]
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All about the new Museum of Illusions in Seattle
July 18, 2024A few weeks ago I was invited to work with the new Museum of Illusions with my Instagram and I ended up having such a great time I thought I’d share here too. The Museum of Illusions in Seattle is a franchise of a chain of museums that now has around 50 branches around the […]
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Something very cool and inclusive about Disney’s Aladdin the Musical in Seattle and I hope we see more of this kind of thing
April 25, 2024Disney’s Aladdin the musical opened last night in Seattle and it’s only here for a very short time and I’ve heard from a few people that it’s really difficult to get tickets right now. I was invited to go for opening night and the theatre was the most bustling I’ve seen it in a while. […]
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A spring tea at Cafe Flora and maybe more afternoon tea in Seattle?
March 28, 2024My family loves afternoon tea. Maybe our gateway tea was the high tea up in Vancouver at Secret Garden Tea Company (isn’t the name magical too?). And over the years we’ve even traveled for tea around the world, like one in the smallest house in Amsterdam, and of course the famous Empress tea in Victoria. […]
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All the Musicals for Broadway in Seattle 2024
February 8, 2024The other morning at pottery class I heard a song that I heard in Ain’t too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations which was our favorite musical last season. And then I got a message in my inbox that the 2024/2025 Broadway in Seattle season was just announced and there are so many […]
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Family Fun especially on a Thursday in Pioneer Square Seattle
January 12, 2024We’re always passing through Pioneer Square in Seattle, for school, for soccer games, for events at the stadiums so I really appreciated that the Pioneer Square Association invited my family to learn more about the area with a stop at Zeitgeist Coffee: a long-running coffee shop in the area, a Beneath the Streets tour and […]
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Connections and why you should enroll your kid in a Museum of Flight Summer Camp if you live in Washington state
December 19, 2023You don’t always think that a summer camp might change your life, but in our family we absolutely know it can. My husband and I met years ago when we were camp counselors in college in Canada and it’s one of the reasons why we ended up where we are in Seattle today. But we […]
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