Eastside, August 2009

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Featured Stories

Here Comes Bumbershoot (And I Know I Shouldn't Be Afraid of It But I Am)

Despite hundreds of genius acts she desperately wants to see at Seattle’s great festival, our editor confesses 530 phobic reasons to stay away — including a horror story from her family closet. (Read this story in our August Seattle edition.)
Hard Times, Hard Cash

City Arts’ graphic guide to precisely how much money the biggest arts groups in town just lost in the crash — and how you can help ride to the rescue.
I Want to Get to the Top So Bad But It’s So Far Away

Ascend concrete pyramids and zoom down ledges with the kick-flipping, slam-daring, banger-craving boy and girl heroes of Highland Skate Plaza.

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The New Poetry Radicals

How two rock-star poets and a visionary artist made Wave Books one of the biggest edge-dwelling presses in local history. And this month they stage their biggest genre-bending event yet. (Read this story online in our Seattle Edition.)

First Up

Hangout

City Arts' Tim Appelo savors the Indian/Pakistani glories of Shamiana with Robert Ferrigno, Kirkland author of a futuristic thriller about the Islamic Republic of America, with Seattle as its capital.

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Hangout

Savoring the Indian/Pakistani glories of Shamiana with Robert Ferrigno, Kirkland author of a futuristic thriller about the Islamic Republic of America, with Seattle as its capital.
In Store

Old friends are silver at Deborah Mallory's Sophisticated Swine antique shop in Bellevue.

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The Curator's Eye

Portrait of a Young Shoe-Gazer. Selected by Jill Sonsteby, curator, Blaubak Gallery

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