Seattle, June 2013
Features
Stu: the Musical
The wholesome, unlikely folktale of a small town in Oregon and America’s first transgender mayor.
Andrew Russell was biking on Manhattan’s Upper West Side in 2009, listening to...
Violence Sublime
Libertines, monsters and the spectacle of pain: Aesthetic violence in the Pacific Northwest.
The only film that ever made me flinch is a 1975 Italian movie called Salò. In it,...
Freedom Lit
Inside a little room on the second floor of the Richard Hugo House, more than 25,000 self-published periodicals, dating from the 1940s to the present, are stacked wall to wall,...
Objects in Motion
We lost the dog. Well, you lost her. Janet, the Machiavellian collie next door whose bum hip made her strut with the obscene sway of a seasoned prostitute. From the moment she...
Garage
Garage
Julie Blackmon
Archival pigment print, 2012 On view through July 13 at G. Gibson Gallery as part of the exhibition UNDERTOW: New Photographs.
Here & Now
Art Shmart
Kirsten Anderson elevates Lowbrow.
WHO Kirsten Anderson, the 43-year-old founder of Roq la Rue Gallery who single-handedly put Seattle on the map as one of the hearts of the...
Taste Test with Luuvu Hoang
When it comes to fashion, says Luuvu Hoang, “Seattle has always been a little behind,” so the Vietnamese-born bon vivant spent his teenage weekends poring over fashion magazines....
Ancient Elixir
Local bars and restaurants embrace the return of drinkable vinegar.
On First Thursday in May, Pioneer Square was swirling with art occasions and the warm air of spring, making it...
8-bit Empathy
Richard Hofmeier wants to change video games, but success is getting in his way.
When players click “start” in the video game Cart Life, an immigrant hops off a boat to start a...
Q&A with Ed Skoog: No End and No Beginning
Seattle poet Ed Skoog wrestles with restlessness, loss and migration.
Ed Skoog’s new book of poetry Rough Day (Copper Canyon Press) is a lyrical novel for the modern American....
Plugged In
“I didn’t know it was going to be so magical! With the white floors you can see every trailing black cord, the intensity of all the instruments. Some people I really respect came...
Album of the Month: Twitch and Gloam - Dark Sounds from the Pacific Northwest
The time is right for Seattle to go goth.
The last platinum-selling, nation-penetrating rock movement out of our area was indie rock—specifically, the soft and thoughtful “rock...
Attractive Singles: June 2013
Five can’t-miss songs from the PNW
Acid Rain Chance the Rapper (prod. Jake One) A deep album cut on hot-shit Chicago MC Chance the Rapper’s Acid Rap tape—for which, by the way,...
Scarecrow Suggests DVDs & Blu-Rays
June 11
Ninja III: The Domination
A beloved relic from the VHS era gets the royal Blu-ray treatment from the good folks at Shout! Factory. This memorable offering from Cannon...
Eclectic Chair
"No thing is just a thing: a vessel is also a mirror and a gong, a chair is also a ladder and a basket,” says Seattle artist, craftswoman and metalsmith Julia Heineccius. Her...
Sifting Through the Grant Proposal Slush Pile
NAME:
Willis Osmond, Executive Director
ORGANIZATION:
The Screaming Agony Ensemble
DESCRIBE YOUR ORGANIZATION: Recently relocated from Nebraska, the Screaming Agony Ensemble is...
Reality forms at Makerhaus
Seattle’s newest laboratory of ideas sits at a bend in the road in Frelard, where NW 36th turns into Leary Way. A dark grey, industrial-looking building that once housed a chicken...
Youth Filmmakers Debut at NFFTY
Balmy temperatures and sunshine didn’t stop nearly 12,000 people from packing into darkened theatres at SIFF’s Uptown Cinema for the National Film Festival for Talented Youth...
Massive Monkeys at the Beacon
After 14 years of practicing in Seattle gyms and community centers, the world’s number one breakdancing crew finally has its own space. Last year the Massive Monkees became the...
Theatre Tackles Gun Control
Sandy Hook, Aurora, Café Racer, Columbine. It’s as if listing these names will bring some constellation of violence into focus or stop our orbit in its tracks.
In a prelude to Gun...
Venturing into the Unknown
Almost exactly 12 years ago, I moved to Seattle on a lark and immediately felt the need to start making something. Clueless but inspired, I somehow I convinced a bunch of friends...
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