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Queen + Adam Lambert performing during opening night of their Rhapsody tour in Vancouver on July 10, 2019.
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Review: Queen + Adam Lambert conquer Tacoma Dome with blockbuster panache on Rhapsody tour

Riding the success of blockbuster biopic "Bohemian Rhapsody," Queen + Adam Lambert brought their Rhapsody tour to the Seattle-Tacoma area.

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Kids get an introduction to keyboards by Darrius Willrich, left, at JazzED. Gospel singer Cora Jackson teaches beginning vocals to students in JazzED, a 9-year old non-profit that provides Jazz education to kids from pre-school to high school at the former Martin Luther King Elementary School. Photographed Wednesday, May 8, 2019. 210184
Music

How the world of jazz is opening to thousands of Seattle kids who might have been left out  VIEW

080814 – Seattle – Washington – Sarah Caples and her golden doodle Roxy sit together in Cal Anderson Park to watch Dirty Dancing as presented by The Three Dollar Bill Outdoor Cinema on August 8, 2014 in Seattle, Washington. The showing was part of the series entitled “Teenage Dreams”, which will also include the movie Clueless and Teen Witch, which will be shown later in the month.
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Where to watch outdoor movies in Seattle and around Puget Sound this summer

Members of Opera on Tap take the smallest of stages at the Blue Moon Tavern to perform. As part of the Blue Moon Tavern’s 85th Anniversary celebration, Opera On Tap performed Tuesday, April 23, 2019. 209934
Beer & Opera

Opera in a dive bar proves to be a perfect pairing at Seattle’s Blue Moon tavern

New Seattle band Black Ends (from left: Ben Swanson, Nicolle Swims and Jonny Modes) impress on their debut “Sellout” EP.
Music

Introducing Puget Sounds: The best new music from around the Pacific Northwest

Books

This image released by Twentieth Century Fox shows Taraji P. Henson as Katherine Johnson, center, in a scene from “Hidden Figures.” (Hopper Stone/Twentieth Century Fox via AP)

Love astronaut-themed science fiction? Seattle Times staffers name their favorite books, movies and TV shows of that genre.

Great reads

An interactive guide to best books from the past few years

Movies

Oliver Stone writing memoir, scheduled for 2020

NEW YORK (AP) — Oliver Stone has some memories to share, not all of them happy. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced Monday that it had acquired a memoir by the Oscar-winning filmmaker. The book, currently untitled, is scheduled for Fall 2020. Stone is known for such provocative films as "Platoon," ''JFK" and "Born On the Fourth...

Music & Nightlife

Queen + Adam Lambert performing during opening night of their Rhapsody tour in Vancouver on July 10, 2019.

Review: Queen + Adam Lambert conquer Tacoma Dome with blockbuster panache on Rhapsody tour

How to submit calendar listings

To be included in the Nightlife and Future File listings, send information to nightlife@seattletimes.com. For Datebook listings, send information to weekend@seattletimes.com.

Television

Seattle-based artist Janusz Pozniak is a contestant on “Blown Away,” a 10-episode glassblowing reality show dropping on Netflix July 12.

2 glassblowers, from Seattle and Tacoma, feel the fire on new Netflix competition ‘Blown Away’  WATCH

Theater

Author Joan Didion speaks at “The Time of His Life”, A Celebration of the Life of Norman Mailer tribute Wednesday, April 9, 2008 at Carnegie Hall in New York. More than 2,000 mourners filled Carnegie Hall to near-capacity Wednesday for a two-plus hour memorial, a concert, literary tribute, family therapy session and Friar’s Club roast. Mailer died Nov. 10, 2007 at the age of 84.(AP Photo/Stephen Chernin) NYSC104

Joan Didion’s memoir of grief, ‘The Year of Magical Thinking,’ takes to the stage at ACT Theatre

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Classical Music

Anne Allgood as Julia Child in “Bon Appetit: The Julia Child Operetta” at The Rendezvous Jewelbox Theater.

An operetta about Julia Child, with servings of chocolate cake at the end? It's happening at The Rendezvous.

Visual Arts

Seattle-based artist Janusz Pozniak is a contestant on “Blown Away,” a 10-episode glassblowing reality show dropping on Netflix July 12.

2 glassblowers, from Seattle and Tacoma, feel the fire on new Netflix competition ‘Blown Away’  WATCH

Pacific NW Magazine

(July 1969) — This view from the Apollo 11 spacecraft shows the Earth rising above the moon’s horizon. The lunar terrain pictured is in the area of Smyth’s Sea on the nearside. Coordinates of the center of the terrain are 85 degrees east longitude and 3 degrees north latitude. While astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, commander, and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot, descended in the Lunar Module (LM) “Eagle” to explore the Sea of Tranquility region of the moon, astronaut Michael Collins, command module pilot, remained with the Command and Service Modules (CSM) “Columbia” in lunar orbit. View of Moon limb with Earth on the horizon,Mare Smythii Region. Earth rise. This image was taken before separation of the LM and the Command Module during Apollo 11 Mission.

Yes, we landed on the moon. If you don’t believe it, try telling an astronaut.

Dance

SEATTLE – Choreographer Donald Byrd leads a dance rehearsal on Thursday, August 24, 2017, at Spectrum Dance Theater in the Madrona neighborhood of Seattle, Wash. – 082417

Seattle choreographer Donald Byrd awarded $275,000 as a 2019 Doris Duke Artist