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Back in April, I wrote about Donn Bennett’s legendary drum shop in Bellevue. The ridiculously packed shop is a drummer’s dream, filled with every conceivable piece of drum equipment, including a massive thirty-five thousand dollar gong and...
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Curated by Cable Griffith and Genevieve Tremblay (two crucial Eastside arts leaders), STEAMBOT opens tonight at Kirkland Arts Center, featuring work by artists Rebecca Cummins, Pat Gallagher, Rusty Oliver, Randy Moss, and Simon Winder.
KAC'...
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The BAM Biennial 2010: Clay Throwdown!, which Tim Appelo covers in the October issue of City Arts Eastside, features very contemporary artists taking charge of a very old medium.
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The Fashion’s Night Out bash last weekend at the Bravern in Bellevue was such a smash I scarcely minded being shamed by Elise magazine’s Borian Tchernev.
Fashion don't: Appelo. Fashion do:Tchernev.
Borian, fluent in three languages (four,...
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Brian Gillis' exhibit "NO!" (currently up at Kirkland Arts Center through October 6) explores unexpected examples of social defiance through mixed media. Using installations that normally wouldn't seem to fit together, including a model...
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No Lady Gaga at Bumbershoot this year. But she does feature in this painting, Gaga Dada by Troy Gua
Mainstage
The festival we’ve been waiting for all summer long – one of the largest arts festivals in the nation – is finally here. Saturday...
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Ceramic artist Saya Moriyasu releases her pack of ceramic and glass "fu dogs" at G. Gibson gallery tonight (6:00pm-8:00pm) in a show of new work that also features painter Maija Fiebig, as part of First Thursday Art Walk.
You can also check...
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Forget to pick up your copy of City Arts this month?
Read the July issues of City Arts from Seattle, Tacoma and the Eastside online now. In particular, don't miss these stories:
"The Band that Got Away"Seven years dead, Carissa’s Wierd...
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I'm planning on checking out Seattle Shakespeare Company's Wooden O production of Much Ado About Nothing tonight at Luther Burbank Park Amphitheatre in Mercer Island. It's directed by Sheila Daniels, and actors (and real-life married couple...
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The Commodore 64, the first computer I learned to program on.
In the July issue of City Arts Eastside, sci-fi author Ted Chiang asked a simple question that called into question the nature of how artificial intelligence is...
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It might be a challenge, due to the fact that Village Theatre's star collaborating artist Brian Yorkey is so busy.
On the heels of winning a Pulitzer Prize for Next to Normal, Brian Yorkey is the toast of Broadway with another job for him to...
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Continuing tonight, Village Theatre presents Dance Education Week, a chance for theatre-goers to hear directly from featured dancers currently performing in 42nd Street, a tap dance classic open in Issaquah through this Saturday, and in...
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If you have a few minutes, definitely check out our great mini-doc, produced by Brad Curran, on the Bellevue Sculpture Walk. The video lives over on our Multimedia page.
Interviews with participating artists, exhibition director Mary Pat...
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Artists and art-walkers attended the opening of Bellwether: Art Walk Bellevue 2010 on June 26.
Artist Julie Lindell, who has two pieces installed in Bellevue Downtown park, and husband Nick
Sculpture-walk goer Eric Vernon-Cole...
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When I played mini-golf as a kid (or putt-putt, if you prefer), I always tried to imagine cool ways I’d build my own course if given a chance. Huge gaps to shoot over, crazy corkscrew holes, fire hazards, tons of rolling hill obstacles......
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I'm not sure whether it is simply because the Bad Plus draws an audience that skews younger than your typical jazz show crowd or that the Minneapolis trio's unrelenting deconstructions of bop, free jazz and fusion are capable of stirring up...
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Tonight's theme is OMG-LOL-ASAP
It was only a matter of time before YouTube videos became subjects of artistic curation. And that time is now.
Tonight at Kirkland Arts Center, Cable Griffith hosts BrüTübe: OMG-LOL-ASAP, a night of humorous...
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An artist, reflecting on the work of other artists. Like a review. Except not quite.
Last night I drove across 520 to see a really big kite. A really big kite. By "kite" I mean sculptural installation, and by "big" I mean 20 feet tall...
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For almost a quarter-century, this annual gala, presented by the Margaret E. Martindale Guild of Bellevue, has raised money for the Hutch School and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center survivorship program while also raising the...
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Today's random search word: views
One of the words I encounter a lot when working on Web development is "views." Anyone who knows Drupal will understand what I'm getting at. If you don't, however, there is a certain romanticism to the word...
