Eastside, October 2010

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The Guide

The Official Guide to Heineken City Arts Fest, including editor's picks, previews and special interviews and feature articles about participating artists. Read it now online via our Seattle edition.

First Up

&: The Art You Make

A special Best of the Off Hours edition, featuring fiction, visual art, poetry and nonfiction. Curated by series founder Lacey Henson, who you can meet at City Arts Fest, which is hosting the Autumn 2010 installment. Read it all now in our online Ampersand section.
Around Town: Early Birds

You should have heard the things people said at Bellevue’s Fashion Week 2010.
Art of Commerce: Bravern New World

What gives at the Fashion’s Night Out VIP bash? Lamborghinis, spraypaint graffiti skulls, and a plan to turn the Bravern mall into an avant-garde art gallery.

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Editor's Note: The Right

City Arts executive editor Mark Baumgarten soothes one very angry actor and clarifies why we're producing City Arts Fest. (Click here to read this now in our Seattle edition.)
Fast Fact: Chris Walla the Cougar

Bizarre, obscure and entertaining trivia special to the cultural history of the Eastside.

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Filling the Void

What’s the upside of the recession? The state’s oldest hardware store just got turned into the Eastside’s newest artist’s co-op.

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How to Write Right: Number Theory

If you write acronym-abusing things like “1/10^th,” our How to Write Right columnist will report you to the Department of Redundancy Department. (Read this story now in our Seattle edition.)
NOW

Your month in music, theatre, dance, visual arts, film and literature.
Raiding Talent: Out of the BAM and into the KAC

How two Bellevue Arts Museum defectors may help save Kirkland Arts Center with help from Regina Hackett’s and Jen Graves’ robot critic doppelgangers.

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The Curator’s Eye: Charlie's Evil Eye

Robin Williams’ favorite Northwest artist, Charles Krafft, brings his shockingly subversive ceramics to the Bellevue Arts Museum Biennial: Clay Throwdown!