City Arts Magazine | Creativity Everywhere

Don't Quit Your Day Job

These days, commercial production  is a mini-movie industry. To hear Tony Fulgham tell it, he and his creative team at World Famous Inc. spent much of March huffing paint. “At one point we all came in and were like, ‘Everyone’s feeling kind of sick today. Do we all have...

Life In Pictures

After 13 years of filmmaking in Seattle, Megan Griffiths has made more than a career out of movies. At the Film Forum in Tribeca, a line winds out of the lobby and spills onto the sidewalk, the very tail of twilight dissolving into an inky blue Manhattan skyline. It’s...

The Long, Unlikely Road to Austin

Dayna Hanson’s Improvement Club premieres at SXSW. It’s a warm Saturday evening in  Austin and the first week of SXSW is underway. This is the indie movie portion of the famous indie music festival, and a strong Northwest contingent is at the Alamo Ritz Theater,...

Scenic Driver

Rachel Ravitch transforms natural materials into big statements. WHO Rachel Ravitch, the 27-year-old architectural designer, accessories artist and entrepreneur who does it all. Ravitch is a Pacific Northwest girl who grew up near Tacoma and studied architecture and visual...

May in print

The Education of an Urban Environmentalist

An essay by Joanna Lepore.

So You Wanna Write a Screenplay

Do you know how?

Robe & Ghost

Paper collage by Jeffrey Meyer.

Standing Out in the Sea of Bizarre

Tracking the music video’s compulsory creativity.

Ezra Dickinson Takes to the Streets with an Emotional Tribute to His Mother

I'm no expert on dance, but I love to photograph it. Sometimes it's over my head,...

Tweets

Tweets of the Week

Seattle's funniest tweets this week. This week's batch grapples with depressing...

The Week in Arts

Er, two weeks in the arts!

I am only bringing this up because everyone I know has brought it up to me, their...

Q&A

Producer Jennessa West on Variety and Controlled Chaos

This month's film issue included sound bites from several local filmmakers,...

At Large

Area Geek and Mom vs Antiques Roadshow

"Antiques Roadshow" taped an episode Seattle back in August 2012. Writer Jonathan...

Q&A

Screenwriter David Lipson on Genre, Collaboration & Running Out of Jokes

This month's film issue included sound bites from several local filmmakers,...

FROM THE ARCHIVES

Fear & Laughing at the Open Mic

March 25, 2013

A veteran comic ventures into the soul-crushing trenches of stand-up comedy. It’s an hour after sunset at C.C. Attle’s, a bear bar on Capitol Hill. A group of mostly straight, white, male comics mill about, hovering near the free nacho bar, waiting for the open mic to begin. The room’s...