Seattle, September 2012
Features
Fall Arts Preview
A breakdown of the season's best performances, exhibits and festivals.
Sept. 6–Oct. 6 This Land | Woody Guthrie Strawberry Theatre Workshop remounts its dustbowl hit, featuring...
Slow Train
After five years of rewrites, playwright Cheryl L. West prepares to shed light on the long journey of the black American male with Pullman Porter Blues.
Cheryl L. West sits...
Prima Donna
A young opera singer defies expectation with tough title roles.
Standing alone as Puccini’s Turandot at Seattle Opera last month, dramatic soprano Marcy Stonikas lifted her...
Elles
Seattle Art Museum’s upcoming exhibition is bigger than feminism.
“People think if you’re a feminist, all you talk about is women. But it’s much larger than that; all...
The Guts of the City
You’ve been to Art Walk. How about Art Marathon? Step up to NEPO 5K—but not too quickly.
It started with motion verbs. Hop. Skip. Crawl. Jaunt. Hobble. Trek. Stumble. Trot....
Beat Generation
Year after year, Decibel Festival provides unprecedented sounds and stories.
It’s quarter to 2:00 on a Thursday morning in September and 300 or so revelers are sardined into...
Hanford Valves
72 x 48 inches, spray paint stencils on salvaged wood, 2011
Hanford Valves was the winner of the City Arts Art Walk Awards held Aug. 8 at 1927 Events in downtown Seattle. It...
Back Pockets Full of Dynamite
The dead inside is beautiful. That is what was written on her arm. Chloe went to bed and somehow at some point during the night she woke up to write something down on her arm, the...
We Are What We Make
A lot of talented people happen to call Seattle home. They do so because they like clean air and trees. Maybe they’re from here or maybe they moved here for the music scene and...
Here & Now
Ground Control
Who would give up life on green, comfortable Earth to join a mission bound for Mars? Photographer Bill Finger ponders some big questions in Ground Control, showing at Punch...
Go Out On a Limb
I’m never more alive than when I’m learning something new. When I check out a show, I’m looking for more than beauty and skill—I’m looking for something to spark an idea, to...
Poster Giant
On the eve of Flatstock 36 at Bumbershoot, American Poster Institute vice president Jeff Kleinsmith talks about the impact of the rock poster show, the state of the industry and...
New Club to Amplify Capitol Hill
Capitol Hill finally gets the dance club it deserves when Q opens on Sept. 8 at Broadway and Pike.
The neighborhood has never been short on live music venues, punk clubs and dive...
Cider Explosion!
Small-batch, artisanal cider is booming all around you.
In hindsight, my cider awakening was inevitable.
I was at a music festival near Portland a few weekends ago, watching...
That's the Jam
Savory spreads are more than trendy.
Ballard’s Essex may have the city’s most seasonally appropriate savory spread right now: a tangy red onion and currant chutney that pairs...
Notes from the Underground
The woman behind the city’s hottest pop-up market.
You might recognize Marz from the new mural painted above Plymouth Pillars Park, overlooking I-5 between Pike and Pine: She’s...
Q&A with Foxy Shazam
Foxy Shazam plays Sept. 3 at Bumbershoot.
Repeat after us (as loud as you can): “That’s the biggest black ass I’ve ever seen—and I like it!” Foxy Shazam’s latest single...
Q&A with theater simple's Llysa Holland
The Seattle Fringe Festival runs Sept. 19–23 in various venues.
When Llysa Holland and the theater simple gang stumbled upon Seattle’s Fringe Festival in 1988,...
Q&A with Owen Straw
WXPFL Thursday Night Pencil Fights: Splintered September is Sept. 20 at Re-Bar.
The World Extreme Pencil Fighting League taps into the creative impulse beneath every...
Attractive Singles
Five can't-miss tracks from the Pacific Northwest.
Jesus in the Courtyard King Dude This is one deep, dark folk song about the deepest, darkest evil sung by the distinctively...
Existential Tales from Tree City
Old Mrs. Squirrel was retired, a widow of many years. To pass the time, she attended her local art walk each month. Mostly she sought out places that had free cheese and wine...
Seattle’s Musical Factory Produces
The 5th Avenue Musical Theatre Company can’t play the ingénue anymore.
This fall, two productions by the 23-year-old resident company of the 5th Avenue Theatre are headed to...
Remembering the TDO
Last month, the Vera Project featured an art exhibition called Dancing on Your Politics. It could’ve easily been mistaken for an elaborate fiction, the final project of one of the...
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