Seattle, February 2013
Features
The Act of Love
In honor of Valentine's Day, City Arts brings you "The Act of Love" featuring three couples who collaborate on their creative projects. Among them are two of Seattle theatre's top...
Palindrome II
Watercolor on paper, 15 x 6.25 inches each (10 sheets), 34.25 x 36 inches total, 2012
Courtesy of Greg Kucera Gallery
Enaisled
enaisled by Serrah Russell
Under purple skies, lovers rendezvous in misty forests where “the trees are full of sighs.” James Joyce’s sensuous Chamber Music poems are the starting...
A Rapper with a Camera
As a rapper, I’ve always believed in the inverse of that old cliché about pictures and how many words they’re worth. For someone like me, words are worth a thousand pictures....
Missive
What I have kissed I want you to kiss as you kiss when you uncinch your pajamas and allow the idea of toast and juice to freshen in the room again.
But perhaps you find kissing...
Here & Now
Taste Test with Strath Shepard
When Strath Shepard returned to Seattle after working as a graphic designer in New York for almost a decade, the Northwest native quickly made an impact on the local arts...
King Coiffure
“For the first time this year, I got tired of finding a good wig. I dyed my hair and it turned out pretty good. I was happy with it. I blow-dried and used a lot of product and...
Snow-Pourri
Whether it's art, fashion or music, Monica Rochester is a master of unusual rearrangements.
WHO Monica René Rochester, 41-year-old artist, bibliophile and avant garde fashionista...
Practically Exotic
Mamnoon unobtrusively lives a double life.
The walk-up window at Mamnoon is located right next to the double-doored main entry, but it would be better off in the alley around back...
Square Root
Unearthing a delicious American subculture at The Rootbeer Store.
When the fragrance hits you, you can’t help smiling like a child. Vanilla and molasses and all sorts of earthy...
Karen Finneyfrock on Her New Novel and Teen Poets
Five years ago, Karen Finneyfrock was a celebrated Seattle poet walking through an airport. Then a sentence popped into her head. “At fourteen I turned Dark,” it said. “Now I’m...
On the Towne
City Arts society column for the month of February 1890
The Shy Catholic Daughters League held a Members’ Quilt Exhibition. The theme was “The Rigours of Spinsterhood.” Hats off...
Lotte Kestner's "The Bluebird of Happiness"
The voice of Anna-Lynne Williams begins The Bluebird of Happiness, Williams’ third album as Lotte Kestner. Whispering, the Seattle songwriter counts off “1-2-3, 1-2-3.” Then she...
Book Review: "The First Muslim" by Lesley Hazleton
When Muhammad was a child and felt like an outsider, “a certain wariness crept into the corners of his eyes, and his smile became tentative and cautious.” As a grown man receiving...
Attractive Singles
Heavy Drinker The Colt Kraft Band
Colt Kraft has grabbed attention from club crowds with a lonesome cowboy croon that’s destined for greatness. His band’s new EP is worthy of...
Defusing the Bombshell: Female Icons Reexamined
In 1933, MGM unleashed the buxom blondness of Jean Harlow upon the world and the Hollywood bombshell was born.
This month, 80 years and countless detonations later, the bombshell...
Scarecrow Suggests DVDs & Blu-Rays
Feb. 12 The Man with the Iron Fists RZA, the producer/rapper known as “the Abbot” of the Wu-Tang Clan, is a renowned fan of and expert on martial arts films, so it’s about time...
Deconstructing Easy Street: A Record Store on the Auction Block
The celebration was Friday, Jan. 18. That night, nearly a thousand music fans flocked to the Easy Street Records store in Lower Queen Anne to watch Yo La Tengo become the 527th...
Almost "Almost Live!": A Seattle Comedy Mainstay Reborn
On Jan. 5, KING 5 premiered The (206), a locally produced sketch comedy show featuring former cast members of Almost Live! and occupying the time slot previously filled by reruns...
Pulling Back the Curtain: STGtv Reveals Activism
Back in September, a handful of accomplished female dancers from across Africa performed for two nights to capacity crowds at the Moore Theatre. For all the impeccable movement on...
Labor of Love
Many creative people live and thrive in pairs, but few of them actually work together. Couples who collaborate are special and rare: John and Yoko. Christo and Jeanne-Claude....
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