‘It’s good, man’: Seattle Symphony Orchestra concertmaster offers a peek at Mozart’s ‘Requiem’
The Seattle Symphony Orchestra will perform Mozart’s final work — left unfinished at the time of his 1791 death — in three concerts Oct. 17-20 at...
Tom Keogh
Tom Keogh is a longtime arts writer for Seattle and national publications. He has been a weekly contributor to The Seattle Times since 2001, helping cover film, theater, classical and pop music. He teaches creative writing to high school students in Edmonds, and lives in Shoreline.
Think you know what a stranger is up to? The latest from ‘Tipping Point’ author Malcolm Gladwell shows why you’re wrong.
Transparency is not the norm, but most of us believe it is. Gladwell calls this phenomenon a “default to truth,” meaning we think we know...
From playing music in a barn to a state park, Olympic Music Festival has been undergoing reinvention
Julio Elizalde, who became artistic director in 2014, has been steering Olympic Music Festival to a reinvention spurred by significant changes.
2 rising classical music stars make their Seattle Symphony debuts
This week, Seattle Symphony presents the U.S. premiere of composer Hannah Kendall’s orchestral work “The Spark Catchers,” conducted by fast-rising Jonathon Heyward.
Portland author Karen Russell explores human frailty in ‘Orange World and Other Stories’
Portland, Oregon author Karen Russell will be speaking at the Central Library on May 22.
‘Shadow’ review: Zhang Yimou returns to form with thrilling action epic WATCH
Following dismally received “The Great Wall,” director Zhang Yimou returns to rigorous and imaginative form in this tale of a slave posing as a king’s...
These musicians use cardboard boxes, books and rocks to create music focusing on wrongfully convicted prisoners
The Innocents is a performance-art and nontraditional music duo that attempts to bridge complex emotions of wrongful conviction to audience empathy. The duo performs in...
Clarinetist and composer James Falzone blends improvisation with liturgical music in ‘The Already and the Not Yet’
James Falzone, Wayne Horvitz and Abbey Blackwell perform in an April 6 concert called “The Already and the Not Yet: Solo and Trio Music” at...
One of our best environmental writers, Barry Lopez, talks storytelling, snowstorms and the importance of place
Considered by many readers and critics to be our most important environmental writer, Lopez is a touchstone author whose nonfiction and fiction alike have inspired artists...
Oscar shorts 2019: a look at the live-action and animated nominees VIEW
This year's crop, showing at the Uptown, include a weird abundance of films about children in severe distress, and aging adults ruminating on loss and...