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The Showbox as seen on Wednesday, July 25, 2018 in Seattle.

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Showbox supporters dealt a temporary victory by Seattle City Council

The Seattle City Council voted to temporarily expand the Pike Place Market Historical District to include the Showbox.

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Jonathan Poneman is co-founder of Seattle music icon Sub Pop. Behind him is a wall of Polaroid images of some of the bands that Sub Pop has handled over the years. Photographed Friday, July 27, 2018.

Music

Sub Pop at 30: How a Seattle record label’s storied past prepared it for the future VIEW

On Aug. 8 and 10, Seattle icons Pearl Jam will play their first hometown shows in five years to raise money to combat homelessness. (Marcus Yam/ The Seattle Times, 2013)

Entertainment

Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for August 2018 VIEW

Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder, left, and Mike McCready listen to performers from Path with Art perform the National Anthem Friday at Safeco Field.

The Seattle Mariners opened at home following the All-Star break with a game against the Chicago White Sox Friday, July 20, 2018 at Safeco Field in Seattle, WA. 207034

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$11.5M and counting, Pearl Jam’s Home Shows raise money to combat homelessness

Ruby Barrera, 8, enjoys one of the water features at Jefferson Park Wednesday afternoon, July 19, 2017. She was there with her brother Isaiah, 5 and her mom. They live just down the street so the park is very convenient. There is a chance of rain in Seattle Thursday, but a sunny weekend is expected.

Entertainment

Summer Guide 2018: Plan your Seattle summer with this interactive events list

Books

American Book Awards honor cultural diversity

NEW YORK (AP) — Books on human caging, early Detroit and African-American culture in Los Angeles are among this year's winners for works reflecting the country's diversity. The American Book Awards were announced Monday by the Before Columbus Foundation, founded in 1976 by author-poet Ishmael Reed. Winners included Kelly Lytle Hernandez's "City of Inmates: Conquest,...

Great reads

An interactive guide to best books from the past few years

Movies

“Crazy Rich Asians” is the first major Hollywood studio film in 25 years to star an all-Asian cast, with a contemporary, Asian-American focus. (Warner Bros. Pictures).

‘Crazy Rich Asians’ is a parallel Asian world of values I don’t recognize, but I hope it’s a hit

Music & Nightlife

The Showbox as seen on Wednesday, July 25, 2018 in Seattle.

Showbox supporters dealt a temporary victory by Seattle City Council

Television

Streaming rules Emmys as Netflix snaps 17-year HBO streak VIEW

Theater

Oregon Shakespeare Festival, other businesses hit hard by cancellations due to smoke

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival has already canceled more shows this year than it did in all of 2017.

Fall Arts Guide

SEATTLE – Spectrum Dance Theater company members Mary Sigward, left, Alex Crozier, center, and Andrew Pontius rehearse on Thursday, August 24, 2017, in the Madrona neighborhood of Seattle, Wash. (Ramon Dompor / Special to the The Seattle Times)

Seattle's state of the arts

Classical Music

Cheryse McLeod Lewis and Dierre Lopez are part of the cast of Seattle Opera’s upcoming production of The Gershwins’ “Porgy and Bess.”

Beloved yet problematic: Seattle Opera tackles the cultural controversies behind ‘Porgy and Bess’

Visual Arts

Artist Wayne White plays the banjo beside “Here Come the Boren Sisters,” a pair of 14-foot, cardboard puppets he made for The Seattle Art Fair. The sisters have been donated to Montlake Elementary School in Seattle.

Artist Wayne White’s 14-foot Boren Sisters will attend Montlake Elementary this fall

Pacific NW Magazine

The Hat Island marina is the hub and main access to the Island. The south tip of Camano Island (Camano Head) is seen at top, center.
Hat Island, a private island 4 miles west of Everett, sits between Everett and the southern tip of Whidbey Island. There is no public transportation to or from it, only a private ferry that operates part time.
Photographed on July 3, 2018.

The waves meet the land on tiny Hat Island

Dance

On Aug. 8 and 10, Seattle icons Pearl Jam will play their first hometown shows in five years to raise money to combat homelessness. (Marcus Yam/ The Seattle Times, 2013)

Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for August 2018 VIEW