Seattle
A clickable map of Seattle shops and other places. Also searchable
by category.
Excellent calendar for literature, art, music, film, etc.
Rent Downtown
Seattle
Alternative weekly newspaper.
Part of the Village Voice free alternative newspaper chain.
The alternative alternative newspaper.
"Town Hall showcases the community's cultural energy with diverse
music, arts and humanities, civic discourse and world culture
programming."
8th Avenue and Seneca St in First Hill.
More than just Key Arena. Theatres and Music as well.
Information and tickets to Seattle live theatres.
A training theatre offering classes for adults and children.
A center for writers and readers.
Readings.
Writing programs for school students.
There's also a larger
store in Forest Lake Park,
but this one has lots of readings and other programs.
In Seattle, Los Angeles, and also sells over the internet.
In Ballard, more or less, on Seaview Avenue.
Seattle's largest book store.
Downtown in Pioneer Square.
Several branches. The city's second largest book store.
Does "Left Bank" mean left wing? Well, to some
extent. This is a very small bookstore devoted to avant garde
literature and leftist politics. Somewhat reminiscent of
what City Lights Books in San Francisco was like forty years
ago.
92 Pike St. just above the Pike Place Market.
White Horse Trading Co.
Bookstore and tavern.
4PM to midnight.
A very small tavern with a small but interesting
selection of beer and wines and a rather motley
collection of books, some fifty years old and rather interesting,
some more recent and more ordinary.
1908 Post Alley. At Stewart St.
Post Alley is between First Avenue and Western Ave.
Pink Door
1919 Post Alley Seattle, WA 98101.
Unusual small restaurant and cabaret
near Pike Place Market. Google provides lots of links.
Better pubs, taverns, and other purveyors of good beer in
Washington State.
A pretty good listing.
808 Post Ave at Columbia St. Irish Pub and restaurant,
art and music bar.
201 Williams Ave S, Ken/Renton area.
This is apparently the meeting place for several interesting
groups.
340 Bunette Ave S. Renton
Magus Books. 1408 NE 42nd St in the Uni district.
At the Seattle Center.
A gateway to Jewish literature, culture and ideas.
Readings and other programs in
Seattle, Chicago, and Washington, D.C..
Bookstores, workshops, open mike venues.
Very out of date, but it's a good list of nice cafés.
1621 12th Ave near E Pine St in Capitol Hill.
Wednesdays at 8PM (or up to an hour later) at the
Capitol Hill Arts Center, 1621 12th Ave near E Pine (basement).
1707 NW Market St in Ballard.
Music, art, literature, and cheap food.
Inexpensive studio space for artists.
Dedicating to covering strip clubs and the like in Seattle.
Erotic arts happenings. 750 Harrison.
No actual sex
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Crescent Tavern, 1413 E. Olive Way
Old gay guys. Friendly.
Chapel, 1600 Melrose
Rosebud, 719 E. Pike at Harvard
Looks fancy, but the drinks are cheap.
Machiavelli, 1215 Pine St/Melrose
Italian restaurant, but good bar.
Linda's, 707 E. Pine St
Jukebox is considered good. Cheap food too.
Deano's Café & Lounge, 2030 E. Madison at 20th
Object of constant police attention.
Stumbling Monk, 1635 E. Olive Way/John
Very small Belgian bar with a slightly European flavor.
(But No Smoking!
Which is not European at all.)
Summit Tavern, 601 Summit Avenue E/Mercer
College Inn Pub, 4000 University Way
"Prospect of a profound conversation with a
complete stranger you'll never see again."
Monkey Pub, 5305 Roosevelt Way NE
A classic.
7311 Greenwood Ave N. Near the zoo.
German pub with wheat beer (among others) and German food.
The Old Peculiar
1722 NW Market St in Ballard.
Irish-style pub with music.
114 First Ave S in Pioneer Square.
Creole and Cajun food.
Live jazz standards, blues, zydeco, and Dixieland.
2033 Sixth Avenue near Lenora. In the alley off Lenora.