Seattle, April 2010

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Online Stories

Extra photos from our Style Profile shoot

Scott Kuhlman poses downtown with the coolest looking bike.

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How to Become a Cultural Entrepreneur

The market is ripe for entrepreneurs looking to develop urban arts culture.

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It Could Happen. Couldn’t It?

Time Travel in The Movies vs. Time Travel in Reality

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Inspiration Boards

Clippings, color swatches and collage that helped Marie-Caroline Moir to design the look for this month's Style Scholar page.

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Behind the Scenes at This Old Piano

Inside a Georgetown studio, two artists pull apart pianos in order to create a new instrument for a project titled This Old Piano.

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A Local Letterpress Resource

Your guide to almost everything you can do locally to get involved in the inkiest of print media.

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Featured Stories

Questions: Quantum Leap

Physicist and SF writer John Cramer explains how the time machine he’s building in a UW basement is going to work – and if it doesn’t, he’ll still get a novel out of it.

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The Freedom of the Press

In the age of digital media, Northwest artists keep the art of letterpress printing alive, centuries after its birth. Somewhere, Ben Franklin and Johannes Gutenberg are grinning.

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The New Heart of Bellevue

How one culturally entrepreneurial soccer mom in a “swagger wagon” plans to sway the power brokers and make Bellevue an arts capital – by sheer force of will. Read online now via our Eastside edition.

First Up

An Excerpt from Pulserator

In which a door-to-door salesman has just convinced a housewife to let him into her home to demonstrate the powers of his latest vacuum cleaner model.

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Around Town

Sean Nelson sings songs about love and loss, and we follow the white rabbit.

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As It Should Be

If I have one ambition for the Seattle Erotic Art Festival, it’s to upend the notion that erotic art exists only for a fringe audience.

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Asscape

Visual art by Jennifer Zwick

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Bloody Luck: Hans Altwies Steps Up at the Rep

Star actor Hans Altwies replaces an HBO True Blood vampire in a Rep solo show.

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Cauda Pavonis I

A captivating collage by Seattle artist and writer Emily Pothast

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Charlie's Charge

Seattle’s coolest new gallerists Charles and Amanda Kitchings take Manhattan, while oldtime star Kucera goes local.

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Hardly Garbage: The Cassette Makes a Comeback With Local Labels

Sub Pop’s Hardly Art releases new music on cassette with local label GGNZLA (“gorgonzola”).

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How to Write Right: Exempli Gratia

Lessons and advice in grammar and style from City Arts' own copyeditor.

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In Store: Neighborhood Watch

Find time for Tiempo Watch and Clock Shop on Capitol Hill.

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Noticed: Garrett Fisher Wows WSJ

The Wall Street Journal hails Seattle composer Garrett Fisher.

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NOW

Your month in music, theatre, dance, visual arts, film and literature.
Parlor Games: Biblical Proportions

Tacoma Art Museum’s Northwest art show inspires a David-and-Goliath fight with a big Seattle critic, and a new craze: giving biblical identities to local art stars. (Read this article now in our Tacoma edition.)
Perfect Strangers: Shields Takes on Salinger

Non-shy local author David Shields pens a 700-page bio of recluse J.D. Salinger.

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Style Profile: So Wrong It's Right

Tailor and boutique owner Scott Kuhlman has got the right “wrong” look.

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Style Scholar

Accessories inspired by the life and work of Frida Kahlo.

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The Curator's Eye

Vermillion’s breakthrough show Northwest Masters: Jay Steensma and Ree Brown.

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The Shot

Behind the scenes at the KEXP offices on the final day of the spring pledge drive.

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Workshop: Key Bored

Experimental musician Tiffany Lin tears up the piano, literally.

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