Seattle, October 2012
Features
Wolf at the Door
Reignwolf—the rabid, guitar-mauling alter ego of Jordan Cook—is this year’s most talked-about Seattle musician. After two decades in music, will the Wolf lead to Cook’s big break...
Psychogeographique
Local artists build on the history of urban exploration to unlock and awaken the city.
I live on Capitol Hill’s Bauhaus block. My apartment is in one of the buildings...
Waterborne
Heavenly, haunting pop duo Lemolo is riding a wave.
It’s nearly midnight on a warm, waning summer night in Poulsbo, a sleepy Scandinavian town 21 miles northwest of Seattle. The...
Literature LIVE
Lit Crawl Seattle turns the shushed book reading on its head.
"I’m a writer and even I get bored at readings,” says Rebekah Anderson in an embarrassed whisper from across a table...
Separate but Equal
You want to understand Seattle. You want to embrace its alluring contradictions and dysfunctional genius, its smug independence and poorly concealed hunger for validation. You...
Clean Energy
After a decade of calling the shots with the Mars Volta, Omar Rodriguez-López powers his new creation with collaboration.
Omar Rodriguez-López doesn’t particularly care whether...
Q&A with Kirk Huffman of Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground
By design, Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground is a touch unwieldy. Lead by singer Kirk Huffman, the 13-piece ensemble has spent the last five years putting out two albums...
Q&A with Corina Bakker of The Tempers
The Tempers are a trio of performance artists, applying equal attention to their music—dark and twisted minimalist electro-pop—as to their wigged-out performances. Though the band...
Q&A with Key Nyata
Around the world, deep, deep underground, there’s a movement swelling, and Key Nyata is playing a part in it. At the outset of his fledgling career, the 18-year-old Garfield High...
Q&A with Jeppa Hall aka Queen Shmooquan
Jeppa Hall’s stage act is a reflection of her determined humanity, motherhood and non-Mormon Utah upbringing. Hall started out her career as an actor, but acting made her crazy,...
Q&A with Grant Olsen of Gold Leaves
Gold Leaves is ostensibly the solo project of songwriter Grant Olsen, but it doesn’t sound like it. The songs on Gold Leaves debut album The Ornament are baroque ballads...
Q&A with Zoe Scofield of zoe | juniper
Dance/video duo Zoe Scofield and Juniper Shuey create performances and installations that unfold like choreographed paintings. Visceral and dreamlike, their work throbs with ideas...
Q&A with Jesse Higman
Jesse Higman calls it “illuvium”: his unique painting technique of pouring diluted, translucent paint over black Masonite canvases laid horizontally, their surfaces contoured with...
Untitled from the Qajar Series
Archival Pigment Print, 1998.
On view at Photo Center NW as part of Social Order: Women Photographers from Iran, India and Afghanistan.
Cloud Pharmacy
How many apothecary drawers could I fill with these deliberations?
The pharmacist’s paper cone parsing out a quarter cup
of love’s resistant drug, spoons measuring new...
Here & Now
The Money Project
In this fall’s S.ite S.pecific I.nstallation: The Money Project, photographer Megan Harmon meticulously covers fruit and household objects with piles of shredded greenbacks (...
Where We Set Our Scene
Getting this month’s eight cover subjects—five musicians, a painter, a dancer and a performance artist on roller skates—into a room together was a herculean scheduling cluster....
Over the Rainbow
State Representative and tenor Jamie Pedersen talks about how the Seattle Men’s Chorus and the Seattle Women’s Chorus will use their voices to support Referendum 74.
When I first...
Brand-new Second Hand
Macklemore’s Goodwill Hunting.
He wasn’t the first blonde Seattle rock star to spit lyrics while wearing a green thrift-store sweater. But somehow Macklemore managed to skirt...
Hamil's Fables: Existential Tales from Tree City
Goat was troubled by the appearance of a familiar car parked in his neighborhood. He passed it every morning on the way to the coffee shop and again at night on the way to the...
I Am Poutine
A Québécois Searches for Home (Cooking).
I left behind many things when I moved from Montreal to Seattle: friends, keys, varied weather. But the thing that hurt me the most...
Paean in a Bottle
Gin is Generous.
Here’s to gin! The literary drunk.
Wine warms, vodka clouds, tequila makes you slip your shirt off. But gin loosens lips and leaves language lucid and luminous....
Lumberjacked
Musician, ginger beer brewer and all-around mystery man Tilson gives a peek inside his wardrobe.
Tilson is known for being unknowable. The one-named enigma may or may not live in...
Q&A with Laurie Anderson
Laurie Anderson's Dirtday! is at Meany Hall on Oct. 20
For more than 40 years, New York performance artist Laurie Anderson has created art defined not by genre but...
The Song Show Singles
Thrift Shop Macklemore and Ryan Lewis As earnest and endearing as Macklemore’s tracks about sports heroes and marriage equality have been, the Seattle rapper is so much more in...
Q&A with Yussef El Guindi
The Ramayana runs at ACT Theatre Oct. 12–Nov. 11.
Legend has it that the Hindu sage Valmiki was the first to tell the Ramayana, a 50,000-line poem about Rama, his...
Scarecrow Suggests DVDs
By Kevin Clarke, Rich Grendzinski, Spenser Hoyt, Marc Palm, Mark Steiner and Bryan Theiss
Oct. 2 Dark Shadows At some point Tim Burton stopped being a unique visionary and...
On the Record
The Melvins’ Big Break
Barring an act of God or thrown rod, the Melvins will make their mark.
This was clear when the band played at the Showbox at the Market on Sept. 6,...
The Impossibility of Flight
Bach’s Crash Considered
Readers around the world were shocked to learn that 76-year-old author Richard Bach crashed his seaplane on Orcas Island on Aug. 31, sustaining serious...
Anarchy in WA
Revolutionary Reads
This summer, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Joint Terrorism Task Force raided a number of activist homes throughout the Pacific Northwest, looking for...
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