Pickles that yodel. Foot-tall punching nuns. Inflatable unicorn horns for cats. A rubber chicken museum. And, of course, a wide variety of rubber chickens to go with it, from pocket-sized… Read More
You may think of Seattle’s Cinerama theater as just a cool place to watch movies. Yet for some, it represents an international pilgrimage. “Earlier this year we had someone who… Read More
This and every summer around the first of August, 18 students leave a house in Seattle’s University District, after an intense six weeks in a crucible of creativity. Graduates over… Read More
Organizations may do better in planning for the future by thinking less like business leaders and more like science-fiction writers. That’s the idea behind the Seattle startup Scout, a subscription… Read More
Even in a region of technology giants and in an age of screens, it might be possible to overdo tech in an art museum. “I’ve been in some museums where… Read More
If you only know Marvel from the movies, you don’t really know Marvel. That’s the sense you get when you enter the world-premiere exhibition at the Museum of Pop Culture in… Read More
If you had to describe the unique “culture” of the web by highlighting a bunch of websites, would you choose Slashdot? Giphy? Or both? That’s the kind of choice the… Read More
At GeekWire, we don’t mind being held accountable for our predictions. But if we can hold others accountable — well, that’s something special. In this case, the someone is Ramez… Read More
If you were to ask globally known clean energy expert Ramez Naam what makes him optimistic about technology and the future, it may boil down to one word: scale. Naam… Read More
What do Casablanca, Star Trek Beyond, and Looney Tunes have in common? All have been accompanied on the big screen by the Seattle Symphony, live, in concert. But it’s not… Read More
What makes a tech development a fad or a trend? Sometimes, the answer isn’t clear. Yet trend-or-fad math appears to be a never-ending calculation for Lath Carlson, executive director of… Read More
It came from a garage in North Carolina. “We’d been looking for many years for an IBM 360,” Lath Carlson explained. “A gentleman had passed away and … we bought… Read More
Public radio and digital tech are having a moment. Not only has National Public Radio listenership hit an all-time high, NPR podcasts and digital content have spiked in popularity. Meanwhile, Seattle-area… Read More
Those science-fiction film lobby cards you rescued from the back of a movie theater about to shutter? That dusty prop a relative who used to work in television production gave… Read More
There can be magic in an object that represents a beloved memory or moment. But, as with any pursuit of love, sometimes there’s a misunderstanding. Take an exhibition about Avatar… Read More
Want to be a science fiction or fantasy writer? You’d better sit down. That’s the advice from Cat Rambo, a Seattle writer with more than 200 published short stories to her… Read More
Ever since the success of Valve’s Half-Life nearly 20 years ago, video games of all types have been increasingly expected to have a detailed narrative. Now, writers of those games… Read More
From the perspective of one of science fiction’s best-selling and longtime authors, the state of science fiction is golden. Golden age, that is. Greg Bear, whose popular works include three… Read More