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PARISALEXA performs at the Upstream Music Fest + Summit in Seattle Friday, June 1, 2018.
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Rising Seattle star Parisalexa is ready for her Capitol Hill Block Party close-up

The bright, young R&B talent rides a wave of local buzz into Seattle's quintessential summer fest.

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Giant-Man/Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) in “Ant-Man and the Wasp,” which opens July 6.

Entertainment

Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for July 2018 VIEW

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

Summer Guide

Seattle beyond the Space Needle: Pick an itinerary and explore this summer VIEW

Books

Your guide to summer reading in Seattle this year

Books

Megan Abbott, author of “Give Me Your Hand.

Megan Abbott talks TV projects, Raymond Chandler and women-centered crime fiction

Great reads

An interactive guide to best books from the past few years

Movies

Elsie Fisher stars in Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade.

6 movies open July 20; our reviewers weigh in

Music & Nightlife

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Chris Cornell CQ performs with Soundgarden Thursday, Feb. 7, 2012 at The Paramount Theatre CQ in Seattle.
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Chris Cornell commemorative statue coming to MoPOP

Television

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

Theater

Kristin Brown (stage manager), Erin Kraft (director), and Holly Arsenault (playwright)

Seattle playwright’s ambitious new drama is a warning for the future

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

Steve Bryant with the Seattle Symphony plays with the Seattle Symphony’s chamber group at the Washington Correction Center for Women in Purdy Tuesday, July 17, 2018. It’s a musician run initiative and is really meaningful for a lot of the inmates. At right is his wife Sue Jane Bryant. Steve says that prison audiences are the best audiences.

The group performs in different prisons each season.

Prison inmates reward Seattle Symphony players with standing ovation WATCH

Visual Arts

FILE — Vincent Valdez works on an eight-panel painting of a modern-day Ku Klux Klan gathering, in his studio in San Antonio, Feb. 27, 2016. The Blanton Museum of Art in Texas is wrestling with how to present Valdez’s controversial piece in 2018. (Michael Stravato/The New York Times)

How to display a KKK painting? Very carefully

Pacific NW Magazine

Ron Judd explains how to outsmart your smart technology

Dance

Students warm up outside their ballet class at a public library in the Manguinhos favela in Rio de Janeiro, June 11, 2018. Led by an indomitable teacher, ballet students in the poor district didn’t let the closure of their school stop them from dancing — or from delivering a pointed message to government officials. (Dado Galdieri/The New York Times)

Ballet in Rio: ‘anesthetic’ and escape VIEW