On the fifth birthday of Bellevue Arts Museum, director Stefano Catalani explains BAM’s startling success, Dale Chihuly’s Eastside past and why he dresses like a preternaturally natty Italian in the land of REI.
Drive 926 miles, and what do you get? A road-trip tour of Washington art: Tobey’s Skagit heirs, hula hoopers, artsy bars, toaster museums, teenage graffiti and the state’s oldest indie record store. (Read this story now in our Seattle Edition.)
Executive editor Mark Baumgarten juggles his enjoyment of the road, and the guilt over his gas-guzzling means of traveling it. A preface to the June 2010 issue, available online via our Seattle portal this month.
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SIFF left Bellevue’s Lincoln Square Cinemas, one of the nation’s top ten screens, for the open arms of Kirkland. They might come back – but there’s a catch.
