at Benaroya

I'm not sure how it wasn't on my radar -- probably because the tickets went on sale back in August -- but I didn't hear about last Sunday's Rufus Wainwright show at Benaroya Hall until last Saturday. The announcement came over the KEXP airwaves as I was driving up Capitol Hill, subsequently almost taking me off the road. A few frantic calls and texts later, I had found some last-minute tickets about an hour before set time. Off to Benaroya it was.

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at Benaroya

What does forty bucks get you on a Saturday night? Three disco balls, the best acoustics in the world, and a crash of zoo animals waving flashlights around a darkened, foggy auditorium.

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