Seattle, June 2012
Features
Peace of Art
It’s a grey Wednesday morning and seven U.S. military veterans are gathered at Tacoma’s funky Mandolin Café. There’s not a green uniform in sight. Instead, the servicemen sport...
The Englishman on the Hill
It’s the end of a long, gray and drizzly Tuesday afternoon in March. Jonathan Raban and I are sitting at the kitchen table in the finished attic of his Queen Anne home, drinking...
Easy, Breezy, Strong
Bubbly infusions, a gin and ginger twist, strawberry foam and a knock-out punch.
Inside or outside, there are many ways to enjoy nice weather. All of them involve a cold drink....
Vanishing Act
Two Seattle artists use the bountiful
Internet to make art scarce.
A single photograph by New York artist Maggie Carson Romano appeared on an unassuming, white webpage last...
Fungi Girl Pg. 11
8.5 x 11 inches, ink and toner on paper, 2012
On view at Cairo until June 14 as part of Fungi Girl.
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Driving around in my stolen car of lines ripped off from old hip-hop, I am the ripe women in aging bikinis. Most of these bikinis are yellow. These asses are not joking around....
Breathing Life into the Bubble
I was six, it was the 1970s, and I lived in southeastern Connecticut. My world consisted of riding bikes, climbing things, swimming in the summer, skating in the winter and...
Here & Now
Forward, March!
Some protestors broke windows on May Day. Others made music. Opalo Mekkelsen, trumpeter and founding member of the Movitas Marching Band, explains how he and his friends...
Hyper Chroma
Frank Correa paints the city with phosphorescent chimeras.
“I’m really into dresses right now,” says artist and photographer Frank Correa, holding up a pair of green striped...
You Ordered What?
A brief guide to getting the wrong thing at the right place.
Let’s talk about the garden salad at Dot’s Delicatessen.
The newish Fremont deli hawks all things meaty, from...
Interbay's Lunch Bucket Bliss
The act of smashing an object, of whatever size, with enough force that it hurtles through the atmosphere until it crashes onto trim green grass, bouncing and then rolling to a...
Public Ridicule: Nerd Pride
Hey nerd, let's talk.
I bet you’re feeling pretty good about yourself, what with society's near-total acquiescence to your emotionally stunted, morally simplistic brand of...
CoCA Settles in the Design Center
Most of the Seattle Design Center showcases furniture and interiors. But in room 258, loud speakers line one wall and sheets hang in the middle of the room, showing video...
A Farewell to Jack Benaroya
It was as if the room was built for the occasion. Three days after he passed away in his sleep at the age of 90, philanthropist Jack Benaroya was honored with a public memorial at...
Songs for Fighting Cancer
When the cancer patients on the hemoncology floor at Seattle Children’s Hospital decided to make a music video one day, they intended to lighten the mood and let off a little...
Loitering Hipsters Create Park
At 5 p.m. on a sunny Thursday afternoon in the middle of May, a new park appeared on Summit Avenue at Denny and Olive Ways. Many motorists cruising through the nearby busy...
Then and Now
This month Dan Digs went Brit-on-Brit with author Jonathan Raban (“The Englishman on the Hill,” page 36), and among the many topics they discussed was Seattle itself, which Raban...
Q&A with Rocky Votolato
Rocky Votolato plays Neumos June 9
Two years ago, Rocky Votolato emerged from his apartment after a long self-imposed exile and released True Devotion, an album that recounted...
Q&A with Glenn Tramantano
Glenn Tramantano's exhibition Surrender Dorothy hangs at Gallery4Culture June 7–29.
In June’s exhibit, Surrender Dorothy,
Glenn Tramantano reimagines Oz as a glitter-spattered...
Q&A with Marya Sea Kaminski
Marya Sea Kaminski's Riddled plays at the Richard Hugo House June 1–23.
Last September, Bumbershoot visitors packed a small Seattle Center theatre for Marya Sea Kaminski’s...
Scarecrow Suggests DVDs for June
June 5 Breaking Bad: Season 4 When we last checked in with Walter White, everyone’s favorite high school chemistry teacher turned meth-cooker, his personal and “professional”...
Attractive Singles
Five can’t-miss tracks from the Northwest’s best songwriters.
Bendito Y La Bamba This song from Portland’s Y La Bamba is sung entirely in Spanish, which means I can’t understand...
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