Seattle, August 2012
Features
Blast from the Past
The Rocket established Seattle’s musical character as much as the bands it covered. On the eve of its 33-1/3 anniversary, longtime editor and publisher Charles R. Cross talks...
Polyamorous
Erik Blood loves every kind of music. Which is why his is so rewarding.
During a night of conversation at a Capitol Hill bar, Erik Blood describes himself as “nerdy,” “...
Tales from a New World
Not Working provides an in-depth look at a new type of American and reveals a new type of American story.
Thirty years ago, author Studs Terkel introduced the literary...
Chroma Voyage
A felt installation at KeyArena
To artist Janice Arnold, felt is both a process and a product. The process is creating non-woven fabric from fibers, usually woolen ones. The...
Can’t You Handle the Truth?
“True story...” Those two words are spoken at every comedy show on the planet, a phrase every comic uses. At the beginning of a joke, it’s to let you know, “I’m about to tell you...
Brotherland
I unimagined you on new years
and your birthday.
Rewound my film and unclimbed
steamboat rock.
I unwrote all your letters.
Forgot the words
to songs I’d then unsing. I...
Here & Now
Beginner's Luck
Ten years ago, Slideluck Potshow brought Seattle artists together to break bread and share art. Since then, the event has gone global. Rookie organizer David Wentworth talks...
Infused with Nowness
An artist transforms garments from bygone decades.
Jackie O and Jackie Hell could both find something they need at The Vutique, where the clothes are edited into convenient micro-...
The Art of Manju
In the Central District, a Japanese dessert born from nostalgia and tradition.
Art Oki is happily off his feet, sitting inside Umai-Do, his tiny Japanese sweets shop in the...
Hamil’s Fables
Instructive Tales from Tree City.
One summer day in Tree City, Tortoise was driving his green Subaru Outback down Croaking Toad Lane, listening to public radio and drumming his...
Q&A with the Pinter Festival's Henry Woolf
The Pinter Festival runs through Aug. 26 at ACT Theatre
When Henry Woolf was a postgraduate drama student at the University of Bristol in 1957, his theatre chum and...
Attractive Singles
Five can’t-miss tracks from the Northwest's best songwriters.
“Groundhog Day” by the Corin Tucker Band After treading water with the first release from her post-Sleater-Kinney...
Q&A with Leanne Grimes
Leanne Grimes Journey to Radiant Earth is on view through Aug. 5 at Blindfold Gallery
Artist Leanne Grimes’ voice brims with exuberance, and so do her paintings. Like...
"Dreamcatcher" by Mike Simi
2012, blank keys, rabbit foot key fobs, custom hardware, custom software, dimensions variable.
Chicago-based artist Mike Simi earned his MFA at the University of Washington with...
Q&A with Phosphorescent
Phosphorescent plays Aug. 6 at the Tractor Tavern
Simple formula: Phosphorescent wins devoted fans with profoundly beautiful, heart-wrenching songs. Over the last 10 years,...
Taco Salvation
Six bucks gets you the full Taco Gringos experience: three $2 tacos, one of each rotating variety at this tiny Capitol Hill storefront. You need cash; the two guys toiling behind...
Scarecrow Suggests DVDs
Aug. 14 Community: Season 3 When it seemed like NBC’s cult comedy series Community was going to get the axe, ardent fans rose up with demands for “six seasons and a movie” while...
Mayor’s Arts Awards Expands
If you work in Seattle arts, don’t plan on getting anything done on Friday, Aug. 31. An unusual number of the city’s most important arts administrative offices will power down...
New Label Introduces “Night Bus”
Alex Ruder makes his own opportunities and he makes a lot of them.
When he’s not managing an independent video store on Upper Queen Anne, Ruder DJs a monthly music event at the...
Tree Swenson Settles In
For the last 15 years, Richard Hugo House has established its roots in Capitol Hill. Now, new executive director Tree Swenson plans to help the literary institution branch out by...
Akimbo Calls it Quits
The members of Akimbo don’t believe
the hype.
When the band announced in May that it would end its 14-year run as one of the Northwest’s premier hard rock acts, Good to Die...
Where Art Meets Politics
I confess, I watch The Newsroom. Aaron Sorkin’s new HBO drama is about a TV news staff that turns its back on sensationalism in favor of facts, ratings be damned. Four episodes in...
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