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Added to the show for the first time this year is the Northwest Women Living & Eating Green Expo.

On April 5, brewers will once again converge at The Museum of Flight for the Museum's annual fundraising event "Hops and Props: An Elegant Craft Beer Tasting Experience."

Led by the Office of Sustainability and the Environment, the City of Seattle is proud to co-host the first Green Festival in the Pacific Northwest.

Returning to Seattle as a part of its 50th Anniversary Celebration, AAADT will perform several works from their classic repertory including, Revelations. The engagement will also include new works from today’s most daring and visionary choreographers, Maurice Béjart, Twyla Tharp, and Billy Wilson. Sunday, March 30 marks the 50th anniversary of AAADT’s now legendary first performance in 1958. To commemorate this historic milestone, Sunday’s program will feature all Ailey choreographed ballets.

For 25 years the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival has been delighted to welcome visitors from around the world to enjoy the brilliant colors of spring as hundreds of acres of tulips burst into bloom in a veritable rainbow of colors. Throughout the Skagit Valley Tulip fields are located southwest of Mount Vernon in a 15-mile radius. Between 400 and 700 acres of bulbs are planted and people journey via car, tour motor coach, and boat (The Victoria Clipper) to see the flowers in bloom.

Daughter of a Rocky Mountain dynamite salesman, songwriter Sera Cahoone got her musical start on the drums at twelve years old. At twenty-one she left Colorado in favor of Seattle, Washington’s gloomy skies and drummed for, among others, now-defunct indie favorites Carissa’s Wierd, L.A. musician Patrick Park, and on Band of Horses’ debut, Everything All the Time.

Is Joule a dazzling gem of a restaurant or a slightly confused culinary vision? This small Wallingford restaurant, that blends Korean, French and American cuisines, is extraordinary yet slightly disappointing. Nevertheless, it's definitely worth a visit, especially if you love to explore cutting edge cuisine.

It is that time of year again for the unique and always entertaining Moisture Festival. This year, starting March 27th and continuing through April 13th, Seattle’s Moisture Festival will celebrate its 5th Anniversary. Come join the fun and experience the 21st century’s longest running Comedy Varieté festival. Help commemorate this grand event with a colorful line-up of both Comedy Varieté and Burlesque Acts.

Spring is here, so get ready to breathe her air, drink her drink and, if you haven’t already, taste her mighty fine fruit. Grab your Gore-Tex, dust off those hiking boots and head outside to partake in the abundant bounty of our dynamic backyard. If it be mountain air you crave, fill those lungs with the wonderful blend of coniferous-fused H20 found exclusively on the slopes of some of the Northwest greats—Rainier, Helens, Olympus, Baker, etc…

For more than thirty years, Ladysmith Black Mambazo has married the intricate rhythms and harmonies of their native South African musical traditions to the sounds and sentiments of Christian gospel music. The result is a musical and spiritual alchemy that has touched a worldwide audience representing every corner of the religious, cultural and ethnic landscape. Their musical efforts over the past three decades have garnered praise and accolades within the recording industry, but also solidified their identity as a cultural force to be reckoned with.

At this point in time it's pretty much a foregone conclusion: Gogol Bordello put on a near-heart stopping live show. The rag-tag band of a multitude of cultures (two Russians, a Ukrainian, an Israeli, an Ethiopian, and on and on), faux-gypsies are nothing if not energetic. A patchwork of a punk rock mentality and old world instrumentation fused together with the band's seemingly endless energy.

Culturally and aesthetically Squid and Ink maintains the contemporary vegan ethos of sustainability—the new generation of food politics evolving from the vegetarian movement of the sixties. With photocopied menus, dynamic color schemes and lots of artwork adorning the restaurant it has that cozy, hipster feeling. Despite a pending liquor license, co-owner Jarrod Ducat wants to keep the place refreshingly all-ages. Bars are nice, but it’s good to have a place focusing on 100% vegan, American style food rather than alcohol.

I imagine they all share the sort loving brotherhood that allows for an occasional late night fistfight, followed by a heartfelt embrace, each blow only serving to strengthen the bonds of brotherhood. I’d heard the band originally traveled in Bluebird Short Bus, so I asked James if this was still the case. “No, we’ve got a Winnebago now,� he responded. “Living the dream,� I joked. “Yeah,� he smiled.

Amongst Seattle's myriad of restaurants are a handful of excellent vegan and vegetarian restaurants and deli's. For those of you with alternative diets or you foodies out there looking for something different there are many to choose from. Check out our listing to help you through the many choices.

The Seattle Roadster Show features cars that come from all over the Western United States and Canada. Owners will compete for over $25,000 in cash, awards and contingencies and some will even take a shot for the top honor of the newly introduced Grand Touring “GT� Award.