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Local filmmaker Bobby McHugh recently directed a music video for Seattle band, Black Whales, whose latest album, Shangri La Indeed, was released earlier this month. Backed by a nearly nonexistent budget and plenty of friends eager to help...
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You folks out there might know my great love for Telekinesis, the powerful pop outfit created by Michael Benjamin Lerner.The reasons are many:
1. The band's self-titled debut album, which came out on Merge Records in 2008, is undeniable ear...
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"Peer Review," or Artist Reviewing Art
Had you asked me last week what I thought about Picasso, I would have told you he was overrated.
I would have pointed out how he borrowed imagery from other artists and cultures freely. I would...
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I spent my lunch hour (and then some) viewing a rehearsal of Whim W'him, the local dance company directed by Pacific Northwest Ballet principal dancer Olivier Wevers.
I didn't want to leave.
In addition to the remarkable project they are...
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The openings you don't want to miss at the most popular Art Walk around the Sound.
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I love these wooden photographs, which CAB contributor Erin Shafkind creates with a laser cutter. This one is titled Cows Love Accordions.
I don't know if that's true. I've never met a cow, come to think of it. But see more of her wooden...
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Imagine Bob Dylan playing an acoustic show for you and thirty of your closest friends – in your living room.
That is how it felt when I saw Anders Parker and Will Johnsonn play at a small house in the Central District on a rainy Friday...
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Balagan Theatre’s Rapture of the Deep digs up more quandaries than it answers about Rapture Christianity – or any form of spirituality for that matter. And I’m OK with that.
The driving metaphor of the play is inspired by nitrogen narcosis...
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Our monthly Best Of Art Walk Awards is hiking up the Hill this month to celebrate Second Thursday Art Walk and to award another lucky local artist $500 cash (with no strings attached).
Host Joey Veltkamp (visualized above by the kind folks...
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Contributed by Frank Correa via City Arts' Around Town Flickr Pool
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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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Don't forget to stop by the Northwest Rooms for the Visual Art segment of Bumbershoot this weekend.
There are several lively installations, including Portrait Challenge, thirty years of Counter Culture Comix, a marimba-playing robot that...
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The openings you don't want to miss at the most popular Art Walk around the Sound.
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Andy Cooperman, It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken: Ring-tisserie #4, 2005
Facèré Jewelry Art Gallery doesn't mess around with plain old precious stones that you polish and protect in a box.
The pieces on display at this...
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'Tis the season to announce coming theater seasons. Taproot Theatre recently announced their 2010-2011 season (that includes The Odyssey and Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband) as did Seattle Musical Theatre (a season that'll include Camelot and...
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In this month's City Arts, a chain letter leads to theatrical revelations, a pop film brings out a nation's true history, and a debilitating disease can't beat a strong heart:
Fwd: an interview with the New Century Theatre Company...
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Last night at the Off Hours was the first time I was ever encouraged to treat a poetry reading as a drinking game.
And no, this was not inspired by friends of low character who were bored because they weren’t watching sports; the...
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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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A new sign appeared in the window at "Mad Mary's Rag Shop," which I commented on last week. Now much of the black paint on the window has been scraped off.
I wonder if they're responding to my earlier blog post...
Still strange...
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Not only does Full Tilt make the best darn ice cream in Seattle (my favorite flavor: "ube" or purple yam!) and feature the best darn pinball game of all time (Medieval Madness) at their Columbia City location, they also have hearts of gold...
