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Enjoy a few extra bites with your favorite guests, as host Rachel Belle shares fresh audio from the cutting-room floor.

Summer festivals include old favorites from Northwest Folklife to Bumbershoot, plus new waterfront concert venues Downtown and in Tacoma.

The festival showcases an inspiring array of international and regional voices in cinema, including a locally made doc about Seattle’s first disco.

Plus, the Seattle writers who earned Pulitzer Prize honors, book-themed weekend events and a significant loss to the poetry scene.

Plus, “Ballard Opera Man” sings his swan song in Tosca at Seattle’s McCaw Hall.

Plus, local photography shows that make you think, and festivals and markets to spark the soul.

Plus, local art shows with “opening sequence” vibes and three inventive takes on memoir. 

Plus, avant-garde performance takes local stages, from Cherdonna dancing through absurdity to Eddie Izzard doing Shakespeare.

At Seattle Asian Art Museum, world-renowned artist and activist Ai Weiwei shows his massive toy-brick homage to the impressionist painter.

Plus, more big moves in Northwest arts and culture, including shifts at Seattle University, The 5th Avenue Theater and Pacific Science Center.

With bonsai treehouses, a wooden womb, angelic paintings and an astrological symphony, Seattle arts events provide an escape from the headline churn.

Shows at the Seattle Asian Art Museum and National Nordic Museum take a pointillist approach to telling timely stories.

Plus, a laser show from the top of the Space Needle is among the new artworks premiering this weekend.

Plus, a ballet that swarms with bees, the Sea Slug Animation Festival, a sad but soft zebra and other artistic escape routes.

Nadia Catarina Munno, a fifth-generation pasta maker, tells how she carved out a career cooking spaghetti on social media.