Seattle, June 2010
Features
Commercial Verse
Meredith Clark will write you a poem about anything. But first you have to pay.
At least one person comes up to Meredith Clark each week and cries, “I need a poem!”
It seems an...
Art of Darkness
In a University of Washington basement, Kris Anderson is picking through the history of the School of Art, one unidentified work at a time.
Kris Anderson holds up an untitled...
Période de clownisme IV and III
FALLING It’s something we do in a variety of ways. Amanda Manitach’s drawings of distorted women evoke the pain – and unspoken ecstasy – of transgressions we can’t help but tumble...
Cap O' Pie
I heard that a donkey fell into a well.He slipped up on wet stonesand tumbled completely down ...
But wouldn’t that be like a puppy falling into a jar?Getting all the...
The Soloist
Excerpted from the novel
He looks almost always for only the best climbers. The lost but unfound, the rare empty caskets. Of those few, more often than not, three or five or maybe...
Sonnet #5
My sister had her feet fitted by fluoroscopefor party shoes. For prom shoes.My sister hunted each paper’s horoscopefor clues to Friday’s outcome. Would she loseher purse or powder...
State of the Arts
We took to the road in search of art, armed with curiosity, a camera and a recorder.
Here is what we found.
No offense to the talent in this town, but after a winter of standing...
Here & Now
Style Scholar
Among the Wildflowers
Heidi is a childhood favorite of mine; it’s a story synonymous with summer and with that innocent brand of hedonism that accompanies the season. For 130...
In Store: Tales for Tots
Alphabet Soup Children’s Books casts a spell on local children, and on adults who are kids at heart.
Photography by Andrew Waits for City Arts.
A wooden toy that turned into a...
Around Town
Awarding ArtsAt May’s First Thursday Art Walk, revelers, tipsy on cheap wine, streamed out of the galleries and made their way to the newly minted Caffé Vita near Pioneer Square,...
Hangout: Punch Drunk
Matthew Inman went from Web developer to comic hero. Why? He has his reasons.
Photography by Andrew Waits for City Arts.
"Eight Ways to Prepare Your Pets for War.” “Ten Things...
A Chat with the Art Walk Awards Winner
At the First Thursday Art Walk Awards on May 6 at Pioneer Square’s Caffé Vita (see photos, p. 15), judges Sharon Arnold, Cable Griffith and City Arts visual arts writer Joey...
Editor’s Note
On the Road
For observant travelers, every bend in the road entices us forward with a possible answer to that most basic question: What’s next? Sure, that answer is usually tract...
Scarecrow Picks
Life The BBC and David Attenborough follow up the incredible series Planet Earth with this eleven-part epic, which will appeal to anybody who likes watching crystal-...
My Father, Myself: Appetites for Destruction
What’s fascinating about longtime Seattle nightlife denizen Tom Hansen’s new memoir, American Junkie, is not the lurid part about being Kurt Cobain’s heroin dealer, or the...
NOW
Rumor Squashers: Death Stalks the Galleries
Rumors are flying that local galleries are closing their doors. In every case but one, the reports are an exaggeration. City Arts sorts out what’s true on the art front and finds...
The Curator's Eye
Go Figurative
For its twentieth-anniversary Best of Gage show on June 18, Gage Academy, Seattle’s bastion of figurative art, will pack all three of its floors with about six...
Trickster Treat: Ancient Tales in Modern Comix
Last month, the American Library Association honored Seattle artist Dimi Macheras, Sequim storyteller Elaine Grinnell, an elder of the Jamestown S’Klallam tribe, and forty other...
Janitors and Auteurs: How David Russo Cleaned Up
Russo directs Marshall Allman as an enchanted janitor. Photo by Bob Fink.
Director David Russo discouraged City Arts from honoring him in our 2008 story “Eight to Watch,” because...
Bullseye Blues
SAM must replace its spot-on curator Michael Darling. Can the museum hit the mark again?
Jasper Johns’ 1958 Target from Darling’s Target Practice show: “What guides my...
Style Profile: Turn the Lens Around
Fate and a charming dose of shyness have conspired to position thirty-year-old Kristeen Wurtele at the business end of the camera, where she’s perfectly at ease dressed in a...
How to Write Right: Tense Situation
One often overlooked challenge of feature writing is choosing an article’s tense. This decision is one of the most important in writing because it sets the tone for the article....
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