Seattle, March 2012
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Stupid Genius
Don’t Talk to the Cops party with a reason.
It’s after midnight at the Baltic Room on a recent Saturday and the packed place absolutely reeks. It’s an auspicious odor that rarely...
The Annotated Appleby
A few possessions say a lot about Bryan John Appleby’s music.
A. In 2005, Appleby lived in his Volvo for six months while working in Monterey Bay. He bought this guitar with the...
The Wiz
Pulling back the curtain on OC Notes.
OC Notes , or Otis Calvin III, is spinning from side to side in a black leather swivel chair at the medical marijuana dispensary where he...
Paid Dues
Shelby Earl shows how a decade in the music industry can change you for the better.
Shelby Earl’s last day of work at Amazon was a monumental one. It was 2009 and, after three...
Motopony Mixtape
Daniel Blue tells the story of his life and his band through some of his favorite songs.
“Metamorphosis 1” by Philip GlassI was 18 days overdue when I was born. I didn’t want to...
Into the Void
Lead by Sandrider and Good to Die Records, a new metal scene booms in Seattle.
It’s a Wednesday night in Ballard, and the back room of Hattie’s Hat looks like a casting call for...
Grant Olsen Reemerges as Gold Leaves
Fans of feather-light psychedelic folk first heard Grant Olsen’s faint vocals and ornate instrumentation in 2007 when he and Sonya Westcott released In Camera as Arthur & Yu...
Why Doesn't Seattle Dance?
That's the wrong question.
The right question is: Why does Seattle dance?
Despite dunderheaded conventional wisdom and rote overgeneralization, Seattle dances. You know it’s true...
Fly Moon Royalty Takes Off
In 2010, a freshly transplanted Midwestern producer named Mike Sylvester started a new job at Mel’s Market, a downtown lunch joint where singer Adra Boo was a veteran employee....
A Legacy of Northwest Soul
The Expatriots
Some of Seattle’s earliest, greatest musical talents had to leave the city to find fame. After graduating from Garfield High, Quincy Jones moved to New York to...
Born Swimmer by Brian Standeford
20 x 26 inches, screenprint on flatstock, 2011
After showing at Bauhaus Coffee in November 2011, this artwork won the City Arts Art Walk Awards Jan. 26 at Melrose Market Studios.
You Had to Be There
It was 2 a.m. when a woman and three of her lady friends sauntered into her flat. Her normally thick reddish-brown dome of an afro had been pressed silky straight, with curls...
Anatomy Lesson
PleaseLet me tell you the biggest smallest thing.When that summer uncurledI did not know how to sayYour mouth is a cabin I want to move into.
The topography of skin is a museum of...
Here & Now
Are You Listening?
I’m not a local music buff, which is odd in light of the fact that I spend my days surrounded by music critics and I’m married to a DJ. Music has always been a big part of my...
Wild Thing
The spirited art of Stacey Rozich.
On a jagged hillside, an animal with the curvaceous horns of an antelope, small ears of an elk and sad doe eyes embarks on an odyssey. It...
Easy Money
Awesome Foundation dean Nathaniel James talks about “low stakes” philanthropy and what $1,000 a month can do for art in Seattle.
Each month, the Awesome Foundation chooses an...
Shape Study #1: Square with Golden Center
In his Shape Studies series, Christopher Derek Bruno playfully explores the difference between the object and the mind’s image of the object. View his enamels from many sides and...
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Bubble Tea
Explained by a man who really, really loves it.
You’ve seen bubble tea: that bizarre beverage served with a fat straw speared into a sealed plastic cup with brown balls at the...
Q&A with Eric Ankrim of First Date
March 10–May 20 First Date »ACT Theatre
ACT Theatre and the 5th Avenue Theatre team up this month for the world premiere of First Date, a musical starring Broadway’s Kendra...
Scarecrow Suggests DVDs
March 6Game of Thrones: The Complete First Season
George R. R. Martin has been called the American Tolkien and his book series has been called the major fantasy event of...
Anything but YouTube
Perfume Genius Baffled by Ban
Seattle musician Mike Hadreas, better known by the evocative stage name Perfume Genius, was not conspiring with Matador Records to find famewhen the...
Fully Funded
Intiman’s Festival Moves Forward
Barring a natural disaster or space-time catastrophe, the show will go on at the Intiman Theatre this summer.
“Unless there’s an earthquake or an...
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