Seattle, January 2011
Features
Lost in the Supermarket: 7 for ’11
The lowdown on the most anticipated releases of this young year
Throughout the holidays, it seemed like every local band I ran into was either putting the finishing touches on a...
Entanglements
Bone Knit, 2009, sculpey and knit cozy
The Good Girl, 2009, ink and pencil on wooden found object
The Family Reunion, 2009, ink and matches
The Singing Tree, 2010, graphite, ink...
The Pig
Lenka had to buy a suckling pig. That was her main mission that day. The problem was that everyone else in La Paz also had to buy a suckling pig for their Christmas eve dinners....
Your Crooked Neighbor: Part 4
The Rabbit Hole
Picture it – the early 2000s. A pleasant, cool night at a small, liberal arts college with a practically non-existent frat row and half-assed sports following. I,...
Here & Now
At the Movies: Student Becomes Master
In Store: Two Worlds Collide
Flury & Company keeps one of Seattle’s oldest photographers alive and moving
In 1895, on the streets of Seattle, a young photographer met a princess. Edward Curtis, who had...
Fast Fact
Did you know that the premiere performance of one of the longest-running professional theatre companies in Seattle was almost canceled?
It’s true! On January 12, 1950, Gene Keene...
Grief Sings: Angels Appear at the Tractor
Photograph by Heidi Peters
Of all the musicians who took the stage at Tractor Tavern on the first Sunday of December as part of the Angel Band Project – a musical group started in...
Art Walk Awards: Whittle Guy
Tradition as Adaptive Strategy, 2010, carved wood, each 6 x 1.75 x 1.75 inches; installation approximately 6 x 70 x 12 inches. (left) Courtesy of Matt Browning; (right) photograph...
How to Wright Right: Less Is More
Less Is More
Farewell, readers! There will not be anymore How to Write Right columns any more.
Is this an example sentence or an announcement? In truth, it’s both. After a two-and...
Editor's Note: The Social Artwork
Chase Jarvis is an inspiring fellow. The big-time Seattle photographer responsible for the Best Camera movement, which preaches the gospel that it is not your equipment but...
Style Scholar: Gotta Be Me
Personal style should be elastic – expanding, but always retaining the basic form you recognize as your own. During my year as City Arts’ style editor, I frequently tasted trends...
Jealousy Is a Mother...
No, it’s not a lack of funding. It’s not audience development. It’s not the decline of subscription-based ticket sales or the death of decades-long subscribers.
What’s killing the...
Home Sweet Tent
A poet in residence sets up shop at Tent City.
It is the Sunday after Thanksgiving, and Lantz Rodland stands in a parking lot amid rows of blue tents at Seattle’s Tent City 3,...
Around Town: Again, with Art
Again, with ArtThe last twelve months have been tumultuous for the visual arts world in Seattle, with comings and goings, openings and closings. Through it all, though, there has...
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