Seattle, June 2011
Features
Nice and Niche
Three highly recommended low-profile fests you’ve probably never been to but would be a fool to miss.
The Maldives play Slack Fest 2007 2008
Slack Fest
July 9
Slime Dog Speedway,...
Surviving Seafair
If you go, go prepared
For some, Seafair never ends. But in the minds of most reasonable people, the city’s annual All-American backyard bacchanal kicks off July 16 with...
Best of the Fests
Fremont FairJune 18-19
One of Seattle’s most notorious street festivals, the Fremont Fair is summer incarnate, featuring the true kickoff to the season, the Summer Solstice Parade...
Find Your Feast
On the trail with master forager Langdon Cook
Rain is falling at Tiger Mountain, and the thick, thorough damp suggests rain is always falling at Tiger Mountain. Twelve of us...
Picnic Perfect
Picnic, you say? Perfect, we reply. Done right, al fresco eating is an art, swirling food and drink, scenery and company into a picture of pleasure. From beer-soaked beach...
Punk Doesn't Need a Mass
The EMP’s new Nirvana exhibit through the eyes of one punk who lived it
I’m sunk deep into the couch in the dark back lounge of the Experience Music Project’s new exhibit,...
19.
Let’s face it: I’ve taken liberties. Be they bodies
up from being sunk, be they bubbles uttered out the mouth.
This history hasn’t happened yet. All is
as was...
It's Like That
In which we unapologetically, over-seriously consider the phenomenon of the tribute band
ILLUSTRATION BY STEVIE VAN BRONKHORST
The tribute band is pop music’s greatest...
Center Stage
Between uptight Vancouver and free-for-all Portland, On the Boards’ annual celebration of contemporary performance strikes the perfect balance.
Sean Ryan and Lane Czaplinski,...
Here & Now
#Trending
Crazy CreekCamping chair, MontanaField-tested, minimalist luxury for the outdoors. Lean back and relax anywhere you take it. JZ#backpackpro #picnicperfect #weighslessthan2lbs...
Lost in the Supermarket: Psych 101
The leaders of Seattle’s psychedelic scene go to Austin and learn how to grow
For the first day in May, it’s unseasonably chilly in Austin, Texas. Outside the Seaholm Power Plant...
Survey Says: Album Cover
Last month, Jackpot Records released The Ram Project, Portland musician Dave Depper’s complete, faithful and excellent take on Paul McCartney’s second post-Beatles album, Ram....
All-Ages Movement Project Moves
This month, Kevin Erickson is moving to Washington D.C., but he isn’t going alone. As the coordinator for—and only paid employee of—the All-ages Movement Project, he takes five...
Tony! Tony! Tony!
Casey Nicholaw explains how a South Park sensibility can lead to theatre’s biggest prize
Andrew Rannells, as Elder Price, leads the cast of The Book of Mormon. Rannells...
Editor's Note
With cold, rainy days still lurking in the local forecast, it may seem as though all hope is lost and summer has disappeared from this town forever.
But no! The long days of our...
Keeping What We Sow
For local growers, the road from farm to table is short but challenging
It’s an overcast morning in April and I’m on my hands and knees in the middle of a field near the...
Form Follows Fun
Surprises abound in Queen Anne boutique Charley+May
It’s 9:30 on a recent Friday morning and shop owner Lauren Formicola is trying to squeeze an oversized statue of a spotted pig...
Keeping It Cool
What to wear when you lose your layers
Styles from the ‘70s are back and they agree with the bohemian vibe of Seattle. Embroidered sundresses and the perfect pair of shades...
All Rise
30” x 40”, acrylic on panel, 2011
This piece is from the Weak Signal series based on pixelated digital stills taken from a particularly glitchy old televison.
“All Rise” is based...
Art Walk Awards Winner
Bone Orchid by Jesse Higman
On Thursday, April 28, aesthetes fond of free alcohol flexed their influence at the FRED Wildlife Refuge for City Arts’ quarterly Art Walk Awards....
Around Town: Brass and Boom
Marching bands take over during Honk! Fest.
The day after kicking off in Georgetown, the 4th Honk! Fest West marched into a sunny Gas Works Park in Seattle. The annual gathering...
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